200 E. A. Vainio, Lecideales. 



vinose rubens. Hypothecium piilchre croceo-rubricosum aut fulvo- 

 rubescens, KHO sordide pallido-rubricosum, plectenparenchymati- 

 cum, cavitatibus vulgo anguloso-subglobosis, O.ooe— O.003 mm latis, 

 in seriebus subhorizontalibus dispositis, membranis leviter incras- 

 satis. Perithecium ex hyphis radiantibus, conglutinatis, modice 

 pachydermaticis formatum, cellulis brevibus, O.003 — O.006 mm latis, 

 in margine extus fusco-rufescens, KHO purpureum, intus hypo^ 

 thecio colore consimile. Paraphyses simplices, parcae, arete co- 

 haerentes, tubulo crass. O.ooi mm, apice baud incrassatae, gelati- 

 nosae. Sporae 8:nae, 3 — 4-septatae, apicibus ambobus acutis aut 

 altero apice obtiiso et altero attenuate, long. O.028 — O.031, crass. 

 0.001 — 0.0015 mm. Gonidia simplicia aut glomerulosa, pleuro- 

 coccoidea. — Habitu similis est Bacidiae Hegetschweileri et 

 Buelliae myriocarpae (D.C.). 



24. B. minuscula Anzi 



Catal. Lich. Sondr. (1860) p. 70, Lich. Langob. Exs. IV (1861 1 n. 

 147. Secoliga Beckhausii Stizenb. Krit. Lecid. Nadelf. Sp. (1863) p. 21 

 (conf. p. 202). Bocidia Beckhausii Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. Exs. Ill (186-5) 

 n. 67, Lich. Scand. II (18741 p. 359; Malme Lich. Suae. Exs. IV (1908) 

 n. 91, VII (1910) n. 167. Lecidea stenospora Nyl. Fl. 1869 p. 413 (conf. 

 p. 202), Lich. Par. (1896) p. 86; Norrl. et Nyl. Herb. Lich. Fenn. VII 

 (1882) n. 318; Vain. Adj. Lich. Lapp. II (1882) p. 21. 



Thallus tenuis aut tenuissimus, verrucoso- aut raro 

 verruculoso-inaequalis, albidus aut cinerascens, aut saepe 

 evanescens. Apothecia parva aut minutissima, sat late ad- 

 nata aut adpressa, basi leviter constricta, disco vulgo con- 

 vexo aut raro diu vel persistenter piano, sublivido-nigricante 

 aut nigro aut rarius caesiolivido, nudo aut rarius pruinoso, 

 opaco, margine tenuissimo, mox excluso aut raro persistente, 

 disco vulgo subconcolore. Hypothecium decoloratum aut 

 pallido-lutescens. Hymenium sat tenue, parte superiore 

 lividum vel sordide subviolascens subfuscescensve aut ae- 

 ruginosum aut raro partim subdecoloratum, KHO semper 

 violascens. Perithecium in margine sordide subviolascens 

 aut rubricoso-fuscescens rufescensve aut raro partim sub- 

 decoloratum, KHO violascens. Sporae bacillares, breves, 

 3-septatae. subrectae. 



