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angustis. Hymenium circ. O.120 mm crassum, ]odo persistenter 

 sordide caerulescens aut demum vinose rubens. Paraphyses sat 

 laxe cohaerentes, simplices aut parce ramosae, increbre septatae, 

 baud distincte gelatinosae, crass, vix O.0015 mm, apice capitato- 

 incrassatae (crass. O.003 — O.004 mm), capite obscurato (vulgo fusco- 

 nigro). Sporae distichae, apicibus obtusis, baud gelatinosae, no- 

 vellae baud diu decoloratae, septis transversis 2 — 4, loculis 1 — 3 

 bicellulosis, septo sublongitudinali vulgo obliquo, membrana ae- 

 quali, 8:nae aut abortu 4:nae paucioresve. Conidia fusiformia, 

 recta, apicibus acutis, long. O.ooe — O.oos, crass. O.ooi mm (sec. 

 annot. et icon, a Nyl. delin. in n. 9518 in herb. Nyl.). Gonidia 

 cystococcoidea, globosa aut subglobosa, simplicia, diam. O.oio — 

 0.006 ( — 0.004) mm, membrana sat tenui. 



Sp. fuscoluteum (Dicks.) Vain. 



Lichen fuscoluteus Dicks. Fasc. Sec. Crypt, p. 18, tab. 6 f. 2; Engl, 

 Bot. tab. 1007; Ach. Prodr. Lich. Suec. (1798) p. 72. Lecidea fascolutea 

 Ach. Vet. Ac. Handl. 1808 p. 266, Lich. Univ. (1810) p. 198; Nyl. Lich. 

 Nov. Zel. (1888) p. 90, Lich. Jap. (1890) p. 66; Vain. Lich. Exp. Vegae 

 Pitlekai (1909) p. 107. Lopadium fuscoluteum Mudd Man. Brit. Lich. 

 (1861) p. 190; Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. I (1871) p. 181, II (1874) p. 388. 

 Lecanora fuscolutea Nyl. Enum. Lich. Fret. Behr. (1888) p. 8, 44. 



Exs. Dicks. Hort. Sice. Brit. IV (1793) n. 25 (sec. Leight. Lich. 

 Great Brit. 3 ed. p. 380). — Cromb. Lich. Brit. Exs. I (1874) n. 87. — 

 Havaas Lich. Norv. Exs. (1906) n. 328. 



Thallus crustaceus, crassus aut sat tenuis, verruculoso- et ver- 

 rucoso-inaequalis, verruculis elevatis aut raro depressis, albidus, KHO 

 lutescens, esorediatus. Apothecia subturbinata peltatave, basi bene 

 constricta, lat. 0.8—3 mm, disco piano, subaurantiaco vel fulvo-ferru- 

 gineo aut rarius subobscurato, vulgo fulvoferrugineo-pruinoso, raro 

 denudato, margine crasso aut sat crasso, persistente, concolore aut 

 raro pallidiore, vulgo item pruinoso, vulgo prominente. Epithecium 

 fulvescens, KHO violaceo-rubricosum. Hypothecium albidum, superne 

 chondroideum, inferne crebre myelohyphicum. Paraphyses baud ramoso- 

 connexae. Sporae solitariae, decolores, „subellipsoideae oblongaeve, 

 long. 0.048—0.115, crass. O.024— O.055 mm" (sec. Th. Fr. et Nyl.). 



Distr. Supra muscos et alias plantas in regione subalpina Nord- 

 landiae Finmarkiaeque in Scandinavia provenit, in territorio nostro 

 nondum collectum. 



Thallus KHO sat dilute lutescens, addito CaClsOa intensius lu- 

 tescit. Hypothallus indistinctus. Apothecia, in verrucis thalli nascentia, 

 strato thallino albido verrucae accrescente, sed tantum gonidiis emor- 

 tuis instructo, novella saepe diu subtus obducta, primum zeorina sunt, 



