so 



HERRE 



Abundant on precipitous rocks just above high tide, Point Lobos, 

 San Francisco. Described from the northern coast of France. 



2. ARTHOPYRENIA ANALEPTA (Ach.) Korber- 



Lichen analeptus Ach. Lich. Suec. Prodr. 15. 1798. 

 Verrucaria analepta Ach. Meth. Lich. 119. 1803. 

 Arthopyrenia anakpta Korber, Syst. Lich. Germ. 367. 1855. 



Thallus e£fuse, thin to obsolete, forming olive or coppery patches 

 on bark. 



Apothecia small to minute, usually not numerous, scattered, black, 

 sessile or hardly innate, hemispherical to conical; perithecium dimidi- 

 ate; paraphyses disappearing in a gelatinous mass; asci long, tubular, 



- l_/x; spores 4, 6, and 8 in the asci, bilocular, ellipsoidal, con- 



90 — 122 



stricted at the middle, the divisions w^edge-shaped, one often larger 



than the other, -i ^; once observed 3-locular; asci and their con- 



17-25 

 tents yellowish-brownish with I. 



Rare; on the bark of Schiniis molle (pepper tree) at Mayfield. 



Originally described from Northern Europe, but found throughout 



the world. 



3. ARTHOPYRENIA ANALEPTELLA (Nyl.). 



Verrucaria analeptella Nyl. Flora, 363. 1872. 



Thallus very thin, effuse, smooth, continuous, shining; whitish, to 

 drab and oHve; brownish with KOH; CaCUOz — . 



Apothecia not very numerous, minute, semi-immersed, flattened 

 hemispherical, spreading basally; ostiolum depressed, dot-like; peri- 

 thecium dimidiate, thick, black; paraphyses free, distinct, branched, 



• 1 , . 14 — 18.5 . 16 



twmmg; asci tubular to ventricose, jx, averagmg ^- jx; 



52 - 73 58 



spores in 2 rows in asci, bilocular, or with several false septa, sur- 



- o 



rounded by a halo, oblong-clli])soidal, -^ ix; no reaction with I. 



10 — 22 



Rare; on the bark of Platanus racemosa, in Stevens Creek Canon. 



Common in Europe on smooth-barked trees; near Arthopyrenia 



analepta (Ach.), but differing in the distinct paraphyses. 



