218 E. A. Vainio, Lecideales. 



Obs. Lecidea leucobaea Nyl. Fl. 1877 p. 564 (Elfv. Ant. Veg. Svir 

 p. 169) est Haematomma elatinum (Ach.) Koerb. 



31. B. ophiospora (Hellb.) Th. Fr. 



Lich. Scand. II (1874) p. 367. Scalidium ophiosporum Hellb. Rar. 

 Lich. Neric. (Vet. Ak. Forh. 1867) p. 269, Nerik. Laffl. (1871) p. 69, 

 Nerik. Lafveg. (1871) p. 22. Lecidea ophiospora Vain. Meddel. F. et 

 Fl. Fenn. 45 (1920) p. 140, 306. Bacidia podicellata Hellb. Nerik. Lafveg. 

 (1871) p. 63 (sec. Th. Fr. 1. c). 



Thallus vulgo tenuis, verruculosus, vulgo subcine- 

 rascens. Apothecia parva aut raro confluentia majoraque, 

 basi bene constricta, sessilia aut subsessilia et partim bre- 

 viter stlpitata, vulgo atra, disco convexo aut piano, margine 

 tenuissimo, vulgo demum excluso. Hymenium modice in- 

 crassatum. Epithecium subolivaceum aut aeruginosum. 

 Hypothecium decoloratum, chondroideum. Perithecium 

 chondroideum, extus aeruginosum aut partim olivaceum 

 vel subviolaceum. Sporae aciculares, contortae, longi- 

 tudine vulgo mediocres, sat tenues, pauci- aut pluri- 

 septatae. 



Distr. In latere umbroso rupis gneissaceae ad Vuori- 

 lampi in Neulaniemi et in Enonmaki in Enonlahti prope 

 Kuopio in Sb. (K. Linkola). 



Thallus tenuis aut partim sat crassus, partim evanescens, 

 verruculosus, dispersus, cinerascens aut cinereo-virescens aut 

 sordide albidus aut partim pallidus, opacus. Apothecia sat 

 crebra, simplicia latit. 0.3 — 0.2 ( — O.s), interdum tuberculoso- 

 confluentia et acervos 1 mm latos formantia, vulgo atra, raro 

 partim fuscescentia, haud pruinosa, disco opaco, margine opaco 

 aut leviter nitido, haud prominente. Hymenium O.oeo — O.oso mm. 

 crassum, „jodo primum caerulescit, dein (praecipue asci) sordide 

 vinose rubet fulvescitve" (Th. Fr. 1. c). Epithecium sordide 

 olivaceum aut aeruginosum (interdum totum hymenium colora- 

 tum), KHO non reagens aut pulchre smaragdulum. Hypothecium 

 ex hyphis formatum erectis, ramoso-connexis, pachydermaticis, 

 conglutinatis, cavitatibus angustis, elongatis. Perithecium ex 

 hyphis formatum radiantibus, conglutinatis, pachydermaticis, 

 cavitatibus angustissimis, dilute aeruginosum (et KHO smarag- 

 dulum) aut extus sordide olivaceum et intus dilutius coloratum 

 pallidumve, aut partim extus dilute sordideque subviolaceum, 



