Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 53, N:o 1. 131 



Squamae modice incrassatae, baud albido-marginatae. Hypo- 

 thallus albidus. Apothecia primum margine sat tenui, baud aut 

 leviter prominente, dein mox excluso, sparsa aut vulgo coiiferta, 

 saepe etiam confluentia, demum baud raro varie lobata, lat. 

 0.5 — 2.3, crass, circ. 0.4 mm, opaca. Perithecium extus purpureo- 

 nigricans aut cyanescens vel subaeruginosum, intus pallidum 

 albidumve, KHO non reagens. Hypotbecium crassum, KHO non 

 reagens. Hymenium crass, circ. O.or mm, „jodo vinose rubens" 

 (sec. annot. Nyl.) aut „primum caerulescens, praesertim apice 

 ascorum" (sec. Tb. Fr.). Epithecium cyanescens aut aerugino- 

 so- aut olivaceo- aut fuscescenti-nigricans, KHO non reagens. 

 Parapbyses crassiusculae, apice clavatae, sat laxe aut sat arete 

 cobaerentes. Sporae rectae aut raro leviter curvatae, vulgo 

 tantum altero apice leviter attenuatae, 3 — 5-septatae (rarius — 

 7-septatae sec. Th. Fr.). Conidia „acicularia, gracillima, varie 

 curvata" (sec. Tb. Fr.). 



Obs. Ab hac specie non differt T. caulescens Anzi Cat. Lich. 

 Sondr. (1861) p. 67, Lich. Rar. Langob. Exs. IV (1861) n. 139. 



T. verruculosa (Th. Fr.) Vain, -'^ 



Toninia cinereovirens ,i. verruculosa Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. II (IS/-^) 

 p. 331; Malme Lich. Suec. Exs. XVII (1914) n. 410. ■-■.o.^ . 



Thallus squamuloso-verruculosus, verruculis O.s- O.2 mm latis, 

 cinereis aut obscure cinerascentibus, convexis aut partim vertice sub- 

 concavo, demum creberrime proliferus et glomerulos 1 — 5 mm latos, 

 crassos, stipitatos formans, hypothallo radiciformi, demum elongato. 

 Apothecia adnata adpressaque, basi constricta, plana aut demum levi- 

 ter convexa, subpersistenter marginata, vulgo demum conferta, nigra, 

 nuda. Hypotbecium albidum. Sporae bacillares, long. O.ois — O.024, crass. 

 0.003 mm. 



Distr. Ad terram arenosam loco calcario in jugo alpino Nor- 

 vegico inter Kilpisjarvi et Lyngen (J. P. Norrlin, „L. conglomerata" 

 sec. Nyl. in Norrl. Ber. Torn. Lappm. p. 347), ster. Etiam aliis locis 

 in Norvegia et in Suecia coUecta. 



Facie externa Th. conglomeratum in memoriam revocans et facile 

 a T. cinereovirente distincta. Thallus opacus, glomerulis hypothallo 

 albido fragili substrato sat laxe affixus. Apothecia margine modice 

 incrassato, baud aut parum prominente, circ. 0.7—2 mm lata, opaca. 

 Perithecium extus subviolaceo-fuligineum, intus dilute subrubricoso- 

 fuscidulum, ex hyphis formatum radiantibus, cpnglutinatis, membranis 

 modice incrassatis, cavitatibus cellularum oblongis, O.003 mm latis. 

 Hypotbecium in parte angusta superiore hyphis suberectis, inferne 



