THE LICHEN FLORA. OF THE SANTA CRUZ PENINSULA I03 



flat, the margin not elevated, and finally convex and distorted, the 



margin disappearing; epithecium dark, brown-black and purplish 



black, with KOH violet; hypothecium dark yellowish brown; para- 



physes separate, some with grayish violet, globose tips;hymenium 



pallid or pale violaceous gray, intensely blue with I; spores quadrilo- 



3—4 

 cular, narrow fusiform with obtuse ends, [i\ spores straight 



or sometimes slightly curved. 



On sandstone near Mayfield, at an altitude of 400 feet. 



This plant of Europe and Northern Africa has been reported only 

 from Ontario and California in North America. 



5. TONINIA MASSATA (Tuck.) Herre. 



Lecidea massata Tuck. Lich. Calif. 25. 1866. 



Lecidea massata Tuck. Syn. N. Am. Lich. II: 63. 1888. 



"Thallus of small, scattered, turgid, glebous squamules becoming 

 at length plicate, pale greenish and glaucescent; apothecia small to 

 middling-sized (0 mm., 5—1 mm, 5 in width) peltate, flat, but the 

 t in uneven margin at length disappearing, finally convex and irregu- 

 lar, pale within, the hypothecium rufous-brown. Spores cymbiform, 

 bilocular, 9 — 16 by 3 — 5/^- 



On the earth in gravelly soil, San Francisco, California (Bolander, 

 Tuckerman, /. c. 1866). Colorado, Brandegee in Herb. Sprague. 

 Spermogones not observed." 



I have not been able to find the above lichen and give the descrip- 

 tion written by Tuckerman. 



6. TONINIA RUGINOSA (Tuck.) Herre. 



Lecidea ruginosa Tuck. Lich. Calif. 25. 1866. 



Lecidea ruginosa Tuck. Syn. N, Am. Lich. II: 64. 1888. 



"Thallus of rounded, turgid, glebous squamules which become more 

 or less crowded together, wavy, and rugose-plicate, and are finally 

 cancellated, from greenish to at length tawny brown; apothecia 

 ample to large (i mm., 5 to 3 mm. in width,) flat, at length flexuous- 

 lobate, scarcely excluding the stout margin, pale within, the hypo- 

 thecium brownish. Spores acicular, 4 — plurilocular, 25 — 40 by 

 2 — 3 mic. Spermatia filiform, i:owcd, on sub-simple stcrigmas. 



