258 , E. A. Vainio. Lecideales. 



Apothecia nigricanti-livida aut dimidiatim livida vel livido-pal- 

 lescentia, opaca, abundanter etiam omnino nigra et atra nitidaque. 

 Thallus tenuis, verruculosus. 



Distr. Ad lignum vetustum trunci erecti pini prope Herala in 

 Hollola (Vain.)- 



Proxima est f. leacococcae et in f. ternariam evidenter transit. 

 Apothecia pallidiora depresso-convexa, nigra bene convexa. „Jodo 

 gelatina hymenialis caerulescens (dein thecae vinose fulvescentes), 

 thalamium vix tinctum" (sec. Nyl.). Conidia „recta, long. O.007, crass, 

 vix 0.001 mm" sec. annot. Nyl. — B. peliocorpa Anzi [Neosymb. Lich. 



(1866) p. 10], apotheciis partim carneopallidis aut aeruginoso-maculatis 

 ab hac forma differens, sit autonoma species. — B. milliaria f. livescens 

 Th. Fr., Lich. Scand. II (1874) p. 383 (Hedl. Krit. Bern. Lee. Micar. p. 92), 

 ad f. leacococcam aut triseptatulam pertineat. 



F. simplicior (Nyl.) Vain. Lecidea sphaeroides *L. sabuletorum 

 f. simplicior Nyl. Lich. Scand. (1861) p. 205 p. p. L. sabuletorum var. 

 simplicior Nyl. Lich. Lapp. Or. (1866) p. 151; Stizenb. Lee. Sab. (1867) 

 p. 48, tab. Ill A f. 63—68. 



Apothecia atra, subnitida. „Sporae parcius 3 — 2-septatae, vulgo 

 1-septatae, long. O.oii — O.020, crass. 0.oo4 — O.ooe mm" (sec. Stizenb. et Nyl.). 

 „Hymenium crass. O.oes — O.oto mm, jodo caerulescens, dein vinose ful- 

 vescens, ascis apice caerulescentibus ceterumque violascentibus, epi- 

 thecium aeruginosum, hypothecium pallidum" (sec. Stizenb.). Thallus 

 verruculis cinerascentibus pallidisve, nee fistulosis nee clavatis nee 

 in hypothallum radiciformem continuatis (qua nota a Thalloed. squa- 

 lescente differt). 



Distr. Supra Grimmias in Kipina in LIm. (G. Selin, nee Simming, 

 ut indicat Stizenb.). 



Ad Th. squalescens a Th. Fr. 1. c. p. 340 perperam relata, magis 

 similis est Catillariae Dufourei (Nyl.), quae sporis constanter 1-septatis 

 a f. simpliciore (Nyl.) differt. De speciminibus ad Helsingforsiam et 

 in Suecia coUectis, a Nyl. citatis, videas p. 140. 



Obs. L. trisepta var. polytropoides Vain. (Lich. Exp. Vegae 

 Pitlekai, 1809, p. 106), thallo soredioso instructa, autonoma est species. 



18. B. Nitschkeana Lahm 



in Rabenh. Lich. Eur. Exs. XXI (1861) n. 583; Stizenb. Lee. Sabul. 



(1867) p. 70; Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. II (1874) p. 381. Micarea denigrata 

 var. Nitschkeana Hedl. Krit. Bem. Lee. Micar. (1892) p. 90. Lecidea 

 spododes Nyl. FI. 1869 p. 410 (sec. Nyl. in herb. suo). 



