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cluso, nudo aut pruinoso, disco opaco, nudo aut rarius p. p. 

 pruinoso. „Excipulum extus pallidum vel tenuiter obscuratum, 

 praeterea pallidum vel leviter fuscidulum, hypothecium rufescenti- 

 fuscum vel demum nigrofuscum, paraphyses sat validae, laxius 

 cohaerentes, apice fuligineae, KHO paraphysum apices et exterius 

 excipuli stratum violascentia, hymenium jodo caerulescens, dein 

 vinose rubens, sporae dyblastae, subfusiformes, long. O.ou — O.025, 

 crass. 0.002 — 0.004 mm" (sec. Th. Fr. 1. c). „Epithecium obscure 

 sordide viride, KHO violascens" (sec. Arn. Lich. Tirol XI, 1873» 

 p. 498. In speciminibus a me in Helvetia coUectis epithecium 

 aeruginoso- aut subviolaceo-nigricans, KHO pulchre violascens, 

 hypothecium parte superiore O.040 — O.050 mm crassa fusca (KHO 

 non reagente) aut subviolaceo-nigricante, parte inferiore tenuiore 

 albida, perithecium extus sordide subviolaceo- aut aeruginoso- 

 nigricans, KHO plus minus distincte violascens, intus dilute sub- 

 fuscescens. Conidia „filiformia, arcuata, long. O.014 — O.ois, crass. 

 0.001 mm" (sec. annot. Nyl. in n. 20146, Arn. 1. c. XVI, 1876, 

 p. 403). Gonidia ad Cystococcum pertinentia (sec. Chodat in 

 Mater. Fl. Crypt. Suisse IV, 1913, fig. 162, pag. 191, 205, 221), 

 globosa, simplicia et 2 — 4-cellulosa, pyrenoide instructa. 



Obs. 1. Specimina omnia in Fennia collecta ad var. subcandidam 

 Vain, pertinent, thallo bene pruinoso a var. opuntioide (Vill.) Nyl. (Circ. 

 Lich. Armor, p. 400), quae thallo nudo instructa est, differentem. Apo- 

 thecia parcius bene pruinosa, majore parte nuda. Perithecium ex hyphis 

 radiantibus, sat leptodermaticis, conglutinatis, formatum, cavitatibus 

 cellularum oblongis, circ. O.003 mm latis, extus sordide violaceum, intus 

 albidum. Hypothecium superne rubricosum aut rubricoso-rufescens, 

 inferne albidum, chondroideum, irregulariter contextum, membranis 

 modice incrassatis, conglutinatis. Hymenium circ. O.075 mm crassum. 

 Epithecium violaceo-nigricans, KHO pulchre violascens. Paraphyses 

 sat arete cohaerentes, increbre septatae, crass. O.002, apice O.003 mm. 

 Sporae fusiformes, apicibus sat acutis, 1-septatae, long. O.013 — O.ois, 

 crass. 0.003—0.004 mm. Hypothallus radiciformis. — Var. subcandida 

 a Th. Candida differt apicibus squamarum vulgo verrucaeformibus, 

 convexis incrassatisque, hypothallo radiciformi, apotheciis p. p. 

 denudatis, hypothecio obscuriore et in var. typicam (opuntioidem) 

 transit. 



Obs. 2. F. glebosa, a Nyl. indicata, thallo minus evoluto, verrucis 

 minoribus pruinosisque instructa est. Lecidea glebosa Ach., Lich. Univ. 

 (1810) p. 187, verrucis glaucis, tenuiter pruinosis, minoribus, apothe- 

 ciis minoribus, tenuiter pruinosis instructa est sec. specim. orig. ex 

 Helvetia. 



