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vinose rubens. Epithecium purpureo-rubricosum aut rubricoso- 

 rufescens, KHO pulchrius purpureum aut materia colorata demum 

 dissoluta. Paraphyses sat laxe cohaerentes, simplices, crass. 

 0.001 — 0.0007 mm, apice saepe leviter incrassatae (O.oois mm), 

 simplices. Sporae aciculares, rectiusculae, apicibus acutis aut 

 superioribus obtusis, pluri-septatae (septis — 13), long. O.oso — 

 0.050, crass. 0.oo3— O.002 mm. Conidia filiformia, „arcuata, long. 

 0.015 — 0.018 mm" (sec. Nyl. Lich. Paris p. 83). 



Var. brachysporella Vain. L. endoleuca f. brachysporella Vain. 

 Adj. Lich. Lapp. II (1883) p. 14. 



Hypothecium dilute fuscescens, KHO paullo intensius colora- 

 turn. Apothecia nigra. Sporae breviores, long. O.046— O.021, crass. O.004 — 

 0.0025 mm. 



Ad corticem Abietis in abiegno. Karelia bor.: Koriseva in 

 Lieksa (Vain.). — Ad formas inter B. subacerinam et *B. laarocerasi 

 intermedias pertinet, colore hypothecii et sporis brevioribus ab amba- 

 bus differens. Habitu priori similis, apotheciis basi bene constrictis. 



*B. laurocerasi (Del.) Vain. 



Patellaria laurocerasi Del. in Dub. Bot. Gall. II (1830) p. 653. 

 Raphiospora atrosanguinea .i. lecideina Koerb. Lich. Sel. Germ. VIII 

 (1861) n. 228 (in herb. Nyl.). 



Thallus tenuis aut sat tenuis, leviter verrucoso-inaequalis, con- 

 tinuus, albido- aut subcinereo-glaucescens. Apothecia mediocria, lat. 

 0.6—0.4 mm, adpressa et late adnata, basi leviter constricta, disco 

 piano aut depresso-convexo, fusco-rufescente fuscescenteve, margine 

 tenui. Hypothecium superne dilute rubescenti-rufescens aut (in apo- 

 theciis rufescentibus) pallidum et ad marginem anguste rubricosum, 

 KHO non reagens. Hymenium crassum. Epithecium fusco-fuligineum 

 aut sordide subpurpureo-fuligineum, KHO paullo dilutius coloratura. 

 Perithecium decoloratum aut in margine rufescens, KHO non reagens. 

 Sporae aciculares, longae. 



Distr. Typica nondum in Fennia collecta (videas p. 176). 



Apothecia crass. O.220— O.200 mm, baud pruinosa, disco sat opaco, 

 margine discum baud superante, fusco aut rufescente, disco saepe 

 obscuriore, interdum leviter nitido. Perithecium chondroideum, ex 

 hyphis formatum radiantibus, pachydermaticis, conglutinatis, cavitatibus 

 cellularum oblongis, O.002— O.ooos mm latis. Hypothecium superne sub- 

 chondroideum, cavitatibus rotundatis, O.0015— O.002 mm latis, in seriebus 

 irregularibus, membranis pachydermaticis, inferne irregulariter chon- 

 droideum, tubulis tenuibus, membranis incrassatis. Hymenium O.090— 

 0.070 mm crassum, inferne decoloratum aut dilute rufescens, jodo per- 

 sistenter caerulescens (aut, observante Nyl., demum vinose rubens). 



