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Notis externis omnino similis var. vermiferae. — Hymenium 

 0.040—0.045 mm crassum. Epithecium intense coloratum, KHO pulchrius 

 subrubricosum (colore fructuum Rubi idaei) aut violaceo-purpureum. 

 Perithecium in margine colore et reactione epithecii. Paraphyses 

 crass. 0.0015 — O.ooi mm, apice clavatae et O.oos mm crassae. Sporae 

 bacillares, apicibus obtusis, rectae aut subrectae, parce in eodem 

 apothecio aciculares aut aciculari-vermiculares, spiraliter contortae aut 

 arcuatae, apicibus acutis aut obtusis, long. O.019 — O.021 mm, ex annot. 

 Nyl. in herb, suo „long. O.015— 0.036 mm", crass. O.002— O.003 mm, 3-septatae 

 Pycnidia (in specimine in Savonlinna lecto) fusca in lamina tenui. 

 KHO rubricosa. Basidia simplicia, long. O.oos — O.oio, crass. O.0015 mm. 

 Stylosporae oblongae, rectae aut rarius leviter curvatae, long. O.004 

 ( — 0.003), crass. 0.0015 mm. Secundum annot. Nyl. in specim. n. 17500 ad 

 Mustiala lecto „bacillis bene arcuatis". 



Var. haematomela (Nyl.) Vain. Lecidea haematomela Nyl. Lich. 

 Lapp. Or. (1866) p. 184. Bacidia vermifera *B. haematomela Th. Fr. 

 Lich. Scand. II (1874) p. 364. 



Sporae rectae. Apothecia margine prominente aut rarius de- 

 mum discum haud superante, persistente. Epithecium purpureo-rubri- 

 cosum. 



Distr. Ad lignum Betuli prope Petrosavodsk in KOI. (Th. 

 Simming). 



Proxima est v. rectiusculae (Nyl.), nee ab ea bene distincta. — 

 Thallus albus, verruculis dispersis, hypothallus tenuissimus, cinera- 

 scens, passim subconspicuus. Apothecia O.45 — O.3 (saepe — O.2) mm 

 lata, crass. O.uo — O.iso mm, disco nigro, opaco, piano aut raro leviter 

 convexo, margine tenui, atro, nitido. Hymenium 0.40 mm crassum, 

 jodo leviter caerulescens deindeque vinose rubens (secund. Nyl. in 

 herb. suo). Epithecium intense purpureo-rubricosum, KHO pulchrius 

 rubricosum (colore fructuum Rubi idaei). Hypothecium albidum (levi- 

 ter violaceo-fuscescens sec. Nyl.), superne plectenparenchymaticum, 

 cellulis in seriebus horizontalibus dispositis, cavitatibus ellipsoideis 

 aut rotundatis, O.0015— O.003 mm latis, membranis sat tenuibus, inferne 

 chondroideum, hyphis irregulariter contextis, cavitatibus longioribus 

 tenuioribusque, membranis leviter incrassatis. Perithecium subchon- 

 droideum vel fere plectenparenchymaticum, hyphis radiantibus, con- 

 glutinatis, cavitatibus brevibus, rotundatis, O.002 — O.0015 mm latis, mem- 

 branis leviter incrassatis, in margine intense purpureo-rubricosum 

 (KHO pulchrius rubricosum), inferne decoloratum. Paraphyses simpli- 

 ces, crass. O.0015 mm, apice clavato crass. 0. 003— 0. 005 mm. Sporae „ba- 

 cillares, rectae, 3-septatae, long. O.oie — O.025, crass. O.002 — O.003 mm" (Nyl. 

 I.e.). Conidia „bacillaria, recta, long. O.oo? — O.009, crass. O.0005 mm" (sec. 

 annot. Nyl. in herb. suo). Gonidia parce evoluta, pleurococcoidea, 

 simplicia aut 2-cellulosa, membrana leviter incrassata. 



