380 Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica X. 



subcorymbose dispositorum brevissimorum affixa, usque ad mar- 

 ginem suffulta aut infra marginem leviter constricta subpeltataque, 

 immarginata, convexa aut primo depresso-convexiuscula, livido- 

 carnea aut pallida aut livido-fuscescentia aut fuscescentia, interdum 

 tenuiter caesio-pruinosa. Sporae „oblongae, longitudine 0,oo8 — 

 0,011 millim., crassitudine 0,oo35— 0,oo4 rnillim." (Nyl. 1. c). Con- 

 ceptacula pycnoconidiorum baud rara, in margine scyphorum 

 aut in superficie thalli primarii sita, brevissime pedicellata, aut sub- 

 sessilia, subsolitaria, subcylindrica aut ovoideo-oblonga, crassitu- 

 dine circiter 0,280 — 0,180 millim., basi baud aut leviter constricta, 

 ostiolo mediocri, fuscescentia aut fusco-nigra aut parte inferiore 

 cinereo-fuscescentia, materiam coccineam non continentia. Ste- 

 rigmata longitudine circiter 0,0 2 0— O,0 2 5 millim., basin versus 

 polychotome aut trichotome aut dichotome ramosa, ramis basin 

 versus leviter subventricoso-incrassatis. Pycnoconidia longitu- 

 dine 0,007—0,010 millim., crassitudine 0,ooo 5 — 0,ooi millim., sub- 

 cylindrico-fusiformia, centro paullo crassiora, apices versus levis- 

 sime attenuata. 



Loca iiatalia. Supra terram in montibus in insula Cuba 

 (Wright, Lich. Cub. n. 30); in Venezuela (Fendler: Tuck., 1. c). 

 Ad terram arenosam nudam in nidis termitum in montibus Ca- 

 rassae 1400 metr. s. m. in Civ. Minarum in Brasilia (ipse legi). 



Gouidia in t hallo primario zonam. continuam strato cor- 

 tical! obductam formantia, globosa vel subglobosa, diametro cir- 

 citer 0,0 8—0,012 millim., membrana vix 0,ooi miUim. crassa, 

 in podetiis zonam subcontinuam formantia, diametro 0,oo8 — 

 0,010 millim. 



01)8. 1. Bona est species, a CI. pityrea bene differens et 



CI. botrytem in memoriam revocans. 



Obs. 2. Varietates sequentes a Tuck, propositae sunt: 

 „Var. /?. symplnjcarina'' Tuck., Suppl. Enum. North Am. 



Lich. 2 (1859) p. 201, Syn. North Am. II (1888) p. 155, „podetiis 



elongatis, scyphis subintegris (vel obsoletis), apotheciis conglo- 



meratis." 



