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sat tenui, subpersistente. Sporae 8:nae, demum obscuratae, 

 long. 0.021 — 0.035, crass. O.oio — O.ou mm, 1-septatae. 



Distr. Supra rupes et saxa, granitica et quartzitica, 

 locis apertis ventosisque crescit. Frequenter in Lapponia 

 sec. annotationes meas (Vain, 1. c), „pluribus locis in reg. 

 alp. et verisim. sat frequens" sec. Norrl. (Ber. Torn. Lappm. 

 p. 341), in reg. subalp. montium livaara, Nuorunen, Ukon- 

 vaara, Mantytunturi (in Kuus.) et Kivakka (in KKer.) sec. 

 annot. meas. Specim. ex locis sequ. examinavi. LMurm.: 

 Olenji (N. I. Fellman). LPon.: Ad lapides in tundra ad Orlov 

 (Kihlm. Neue Beitr. Flecht. Kola p. 59). . LInar.: Leviavaara 

 (F. Silen). LKem.: Olostunturi in Muonioniska, Lompolo- 

 tunturi (Norrl., f. gerontoides) et Levitunturi (E. Nylander) 

 in Kittila, Pyhatunturi in Sodankyla (Vain., f. soluta). Kuus.: 

 livaara, Nuorunen (Vain.). Ob.: Pahnilankangas in Simo 

 (V. Rasanen). N.: Ad Meilans (Vain.). „L. alpicola" ex 

 Hoglandia (Brenner 1. c. p. 118) sec, specim. in mus. Fenn. 

 est Rh. geographicum. 



Thallus modice incrassatus aut crassus, KHO solo (conf. 

 infra) aut addito CaClgOs vulgo baud distincte reagens. Apo- 

 thecla lat. circ. 1 — 1.5 (0.7 — 1.7) mm, ex hypothallo enata, sed 

 demum vulgo thallo immersa apparent, saepe sat crebra aut 

 irregulariter aggregata contiguave, interdum discis parce papillatis. 

 Perithecium rubricoso-fuligineum. Hypothecium fusconigrum. 

 Hymenium gelatinosum, jodo persistenter caerulescens. Epi- 

 thecium violaceo- vel rubricoso- aut olivaceo-fuligineum. Sporae 

 primum decoloratae, dein aeruginosae nigricantesve, saepe medio 

 constrictae, saepe strato gelatinoso modice incrassato indutae. 

 Thallus acidum rhizocarpicum et psoromicum continens sec. Zopf 

 1. c. Gonidia cystococcoidea, simplicia, globosa aut subglobosa, 

 diam. circ. O.oo? — O.oie mm, membrana sat tenui. — In „Rh. 

 alpicola" Flagey (Fl. Lich. Franche-Comte p. 490), quod au- 

 tem non est bene limitatum, conidia „cylindrica recta" descri- 

 buntur. 



F. soluta (Bagl. et Carest.) Vain. Buellia alpicola (i. soluta Bagl. 

 et Carest. Catal. Lich. Vals. (Comm. Critt. It. II, 1867, p. 241), Anacr. 

 Lich. Vals. II (1881) p. 281. Lecidea oreites f. soluta Vain. Adj. Lich. 

 Lapp. II p. 127. 



