CI. verticillata. 183 



aut fusco-nigra, materiam coccineam non continentia. Sterig- 

 mata longitudine circiter O,025— 0,oi8 millim., vulgo trichotome 

 et dichotome ramosa, ramis leviter aut levissime ventricosis aut 

 ventricoso-articulatis, in apicibus articulisque pycnoconidia elTe- 

 rentia. Pycnoconidia longitudine 0,oo5-0,oo8 millim., crassi- 

 tudino vix 0,ooi millim., cylindrica aut subfusiformi-cylindrica, 

 apices versus baud aut levissime attenuata, sat bene aut leviter 

 curvata. 



Distributio geographica. Fere cosmopolitica est, regioni- 

 bus maxime arcticis deficiens et in regionibus tropicis rara. In 

 Lapponia: Ad Paatsjoki in regione pinifera (Wainio, Adj. p. 107), 

 in Lapponia Kemensi (E. Nyl., nomine „cervicornis", f. cephalo- 

 phylla Malbr.: mus. Fenn.), ad Imandra (Fellman: mus. Fenn.), 

 Louppio ad Tornio et ad Edefors in Lule (Hellb., Norrl. Lafv. p. 

 68). In regione subalpina ad Paanajarvi et in montibus Naranka- 

 vaara et livaara in par. Kuusamo, in regionibus inferioribus Fen- 

 nicie sat frequenter. Ceterum passim in tota Euroioa. Asia: Ad 

 flumen Konda in Siberia occid. sat frequenter (ipse observavi), 

 in Sachalin (Augustinowicz: mus. Hort. Petrop.), in montosis 

 prope I Kouno (Henon: Mlill. Arg., Lich. Jap. p. 481) et ad 

 Tosa (Miill. Arg., Lich. Miyosh. Japon. p. 121) in Japonia, in 

 China boreali (C. Fortune, n. 51: mus. Hort. Petrop.; Krem- 

 pelh., Exot. p. 308), circa Manipur in India (Watt: Miill. Arg., 

 Lich. Manip. p. 217), in Kou-toui supra Mo-so-yn in Yunnan (Hue, 

 Lich. Yunnan p. 27). Africa: Ad La Calle in Algeria (Bor. et 

 Dur., Expl. Alg. p. 259), in Socotra (Balf.: Mull. Arg., Lich. So- 

 cotra p. 348), Madagascaria (Thomps.: Stizenb., Lich. Afr. p. 26), 

 Borbonia (Floerk., Clad. Comm. p. 27). America septentr.: Ad 

 Tessarmiut in Groenlandia (Th. Fr., Lich. Arct. p. 149, Deichm. Br. 

 et Gronl., Gronl. Lich. p. 487), America Britannica (Drummond), 

 Labrador (Mrs. Brenton), insula Miquelon (Arn., Hue, 1. c), ad New 

 Bedford frequenter (teste Willey in sched.: in herb, meo), passim 

 etiam alibi in Civitatibus Unitis (Tuck., Syn. North. Am. p. 243, 

 Leight., Not. Lichenol. XII p. 114, cet.), in ins. Cuba (Wright, Lich. 

 Cub. n. 28, Tuck., 1. c). America merid.: In Colombia (Fendler: 

 Mont., PI. Colomb. Fendl. p. 298), in Venezuela (Tuck., 1. c), prope 

 Chupe et Carenta in prov. Yungas Boliviae (Mont., Fl. Bol. p. 41), 



