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Thallus indistinctus. Apothecia crebra, verrucas for- 

 mantia leviter prominentes aut hemisphaericas, nigras, nudas. 

 Perithecium fusconigrum, globosum, lat. O.060 — O.090 mm, semi- 

 immersum, integrum, margine ostiolari haud prominente, 

 ostiolo circ. O.015 mm lato. Asci clavato-ventricosi, mem- 

 brana sat tenui. Paraphyses obsoletae. Sporae polystichae 

 aut distichae, oblongo-ovoideae, 1-septatae, long. O.on — O.014, 

 crass. O.005 — O.006 mm, membrana modice incrassata. Parasita 

 lichenis. 



Distr. In thallo Lecideae rubiformis Wahlenb. in 



jugo alpino inter Kilpisjarvi et Lyngen in Norvegia (J. P. 



Norrlin). 



„Arcte accedit ad V. Schaereri (Mass.), quae vero sporas 

 habet tenuiores" (Nyl. 1. c). Nucleus jodo non reagens. Para- 

 physes in gelatinam diffluxae, tubulis septatis adhuc conspicuis 

 in gelatina, breves. Sporae septo in medio sporae, membrana 

 haud gelatinosa, decolores, haud constrictae, apicibus rotundatis. 

 Asci long. O.035, crass. O.oig mm. 



Obs. Arthopyrenia conspurcans Th. Fr. (Lich. Spitsb., 1867, p. 51) 

 ad L. rabiformem in Insulis Spitsbergensibus collecta, „apotheciis ad- 

 natis, conico-globosis, sporis O.012 — O.014 mm longis, O.004 — O.0045 mm latis" 

 descripta, forsan est autonoma species (conf. Arn. Lich. Tirol XI, 1873, 

 p. 522, Wint. 1. c. p. 347, Zopf Uebers. Schmaroz. Pilze p. 325, Vou- 

 aux 1. c). 



2. Ph. Schaereri (Mass.) Arn. 



Lich. Tirol VI (1871) p. 43, XIII (1874) p. 281 (51), XXX (1897) p. 

 42, Lich. Fragm. XVI (Fl. 1874) p. 169 (31), 174 (36), tab. II f. 17, Lich. 

 Exs. (1872) n. 524; Zopf Uebers. Schmaroz. Pilze (Hedwigia 1896) p. 

 325; Vouaux Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. (1912) p. 229. Sphaeria Schaereri Mass. 

 Sulla Lecid. Hook. (1853) p. 8, fig. 3. Sphaerella Anzi Analect. (1868) 

 p. 27. Verrucaria Nyl. Fl. 1865 p. 358, Fl. 1870 p. 38; Norrl. Ber. Torn. 

 Lappm. (1873) p. 347; Vain. Adj. Lich. Lapp. II (1883) p. 194. Epicymatia 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. I (1882) p. 571. 



Apothecia crebra aut aggregata, verrucas formantia 

 prominentes, nigras, nudas, opacas. Perithecium fusco- 

 nigrum, globosum aut depresso-subglobosum, lat. O.050 — 

 0.065 mm, integrum, basi immersum, margine ostiolari haud 

 prominente, ostiolo O.010 — O.012 mm lato. Asci ventricosi, in 

 apice membrana modice incrassata. Paraphyses obsoletae. 



