Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 49, N:o 2. 187 



Genus gonidiis destitutum, ad fungos pertinens. Sporae 

 8:nae — 16:nae, decolores, aciculares aut fusiformi-aciculares, 

 1— pluri-septatae, ioculis cylindricis. Paraphyses sat obsoletae, 

 simplices. 



Ad gen. Ophiobolum Riess (Hedwigia 1853 p. 27) species analogae 

 lichenicolae in Sacc. Syll. Fung. II p. 351 relatae melius genus auto- 

 nomum constituunt. 



1. C. epidermidis (Ach.) Vain. 



Lichen epidermidis Ach. Lich. Suec. Prodr. (1798) p. 118. Verru- 

 caria Ach. Meth. Lich. (1803) p. 118; Vain. Adj. Lich. Lapp. II (1883) p. 

 187. Leptorhaphis epidermidis Th. Fr. Lich. Arct. (1860) p. 273; Arn. 

 Lich. Frank. Jur. (Fl. 1885) p. 274, Lich. Munch. (1891) p. 121; A. Sm. 

 Mon. Brit. Lich. (1911) p. 330. Vermcaria oxyspora Nyl. Nya Bot. Not. 

 (1852) p. 179, (1853) p. 4, Exp. Pyrenoc. (1858) p. 61, Lich. Paris (1896) 

 p. 127; Hue Addend. II (1888) p. 308. Leptorhaphis oxyspora Koerb. 

 Syst. Lich. Germ. (1855) p. 371; Jatta Fl. It. Crypt. Ill p. 895. Verm- 

 caria albissima Nyl. Lich. Scand. (1861) p. 282 (excl. var.). 



Thallus indistinctus. Apothecia sparsa, verrucas for- 

 mantia subhemisphaericas, circ. O.250 — O.300 mm latas, atras, 

 nitidas. Perithecium fusconigrum, dimidiatum, margine 

 ostiolari haud prominente, ostiolo circ. O.040 mm lato, hyphis 

 e basi excrescentibus maculam ellipticam nigricantem vulgo 

 formantibus. Paraphyses saepe sat numerosae, simplices. Asci 

 subclavati, membrana modice incrassata. Sporae 8:nae, acicu- 

 lari-fusiformes, rectae aut leviter arcuatae, long. O.ois — O.028, 

 crass. O.002 — O.003 mm, 1 — 3-septatae aut simplices, obser- 

 vante Nyl. long. „ — O.036, crass. — O.0035 mm, raro 5-septatae". 



F. vulgaris Vain. Adj. Lich. Lapp. II (1883) p. 188. 



Exs. Hepp Flecht. Eur. II (1857) n. 460. 



Sporae partim 3-septatae. 



Distr. Ad corticem Betulae in regionibus silvaticis 

 Fenniae et Kareliae Vienaensis frequenter. 

 F. fusispora Vain. 1. c. 



Exs. Schaer. Lich. Helv. Exs. n. 107. — Norrl. et Nyl. Herb. 

 Lich. Fenn. VIII (1882) n. 389. 



Sporae 1-septatae aut partim simplices. 

 Distr. Ad corticem Betulae crescit, forsan aeque 

 frequenter ac forma praecedens. 



