S. 0. Lindberg, Monographia Metzgeria?. 29 



Metzgeria procera Mitt, in Hook.-f. Fl. N.-Zel., 2, p. 166, n. 1, in 

 obs. (1855). 



Habitat in insula Guadeloupe Antillarum, 3000 ped. alt. (Q 

 ster., Funck et Schlim, n. 228). — Specimen communicavit ipse 

 oculatissimus et experientissimus auctor W. Mitten. 



De hac omnino nihil aliud /. c. dicitur, qnam : "M. procera is very 

 near to M. furcata in size and habit, but far more laxly areolate." 



Var. y. azurea Lindb. 



Pulchre azurea, ad 2,5 cm. longa, parum ramosa — simplex, 

 minus convexa et pilosa, pilis brevioribus, subrectis, marginalibus 

 maximam partem solitariis; ceterum typo simillima. 



Habitat ad urbem Quito, Ecuador (5 ster., W. Jameson), 

 e specimine, ab amicissimo M. A. Lawson donato. 



8. Metzgeria conjugata. 



Autoica, grandiuscula et sat elongata, vulgo bene di- 

 chotoma, ramis brevibus, linearis, hie illic tamen distincte 

 angustior, antice convexa ob margines late reflexos et plus 

 minusve distincte undulatos, postice in caule sat dense, in 

 marginibus tamen remotius, in ipsis alis foliaceis haucl vel 

 hie illic remotissime setoso-pilosa; pili longiuseuli, strict! et 

 divaricati, marginales ssepissime gemini et inter se diver- 

 gentes, permulti in apice suctorio-ramosi ; caulis antice a 

 duabus postice tamen a tribus — sex cellulis majoribus et 

 laxis obtectus. — Fi gg 6. 



Lichen terrestris supinus minimus dichotomies, oblongis segmentis, inter 

 muscos rep tans Ray. Syn. st. brit., 2 ed., p. 41, n. 9 (1696); 

 Hist, pi., 3, p. 48 (1704). Bob. (Mor.) Hist. pi. oxon., 3, p. 

 623, n. 6 (1699). 



Lichen parvus repens, folds angustis non squamosis, ceranoides 

 Bnddl. Hort. sice, 2, fol. 17, n. 15. 



Marsilia minima, angustifolia, floribus nigricantibus ex inferiori folio- 

 rum parte a subhirsuta, et turbinala vagina erumpentibus 

 Micll. Nov. pi. gen., p. 5, n. 4, excl. synon. Ray, Syn. ed. 3 

 (1729). 



