BIHANÖ TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 28. AFD. III. X:0 1. 25 



obscurascente, saltem vulgo persistente. Hypothecium palli- 

 dum; thecimn siiperne olivaceum v. olivaceo-fiilvescens, KOH 

 roseoviolascens. Sporae in ascis clavatis 8:n8e, tetralDlastee, 

 ellipsoideaj v. late oblongse v. fere ovoidetfi, medio non con- 

 strictse, (25 — )oO — o5( — 40) i-i longse, 12 — 14 n crassee. 



Crusta KOH imrautata; stratum corticale bene evolutum, 

 grosse celliilosnm (verisirailiter ex hyphis verticalibus crebre 

 septatis formatum), cellulis summis ± pachydermaticis, ceteris 

 leptodermaticis; gonidia subglobosa, vulgo 8 — 13 u crassa; 

 hypbaä mednllares J non reagentes. Pars uiar^inalis excipiili 

 sat tennis, gonidia numerosa— pauca fovens; strato corticali sat 

 crasso, snperne ± attennato, parencbymatico, J non reagente; 

 margine proprio ])ene evoluto marginera tballodem demum 

 .sajpe ± excludente. Tliccinm circiter 150 ^< altum, J persi- 

 stenter coernlescens; parapbyses graciles, 1 — 1,25 ^t crasste, 

 apicibus ramosis arcte cobterentes, nianifestissinie capitato- 

 clavatfe, clava brevi, crassee, 5 — 8 /.t crassa, fuscescente, sfepe 

 septata et ad septum constricta. Sporae utroque apice obtusee, 

 din snbbyalinse, septo primario sat inconspicno, locnlis parvis 

 lenticnlaribus. 



Habitat ad eorticem arborum. 



Specimina reportavimus e Rio Grande do Sul: Cacboeira 

 (In margine silvnlee. minns densee. 18 ^'^/2 93. N:is 1050 & 

 1050 B.). 



Specimeu originalc hujus speciei non vidimus, at planta uostra in de- 

 scriptionem 1. c. datani bene quadrat, quare deterniinatio vix est iucerta. 



A R. Coiiradi Koerb. [Öyst. (1855), p. 123.] crusta nielius evolnta, apo- 

 theciis majoribus et vulgo Itetius coloratis, margine proprio bene evoluto, 

 thecio KOH roseo-violascente sporisque majoribus recedit. R. liomoholoidcs 

 Wainio [Étud. Brés. (1890), p. 159] jaiu sporis multo minoribus et apotheoiis 

 niox convexis differt. 



4. R. conneeteus Malme n. sp. 



Tliallus crustaceus, effusus, tenuissimus, continuus v. non- 

 nibil rimoso-areolatns, leevigatns, albidus v. albido-cinereus, 

 hypotballo indistincto. Apotliecia sat sparsa, adnata, medio- 

 cria, 0,ö — 0,75 mm. lata; disco atro v. snbspadiceo, opaco, per- 

 sistenter piano v. demum convexiusculo; margine sat tenni 

 v. crassinscuio, baud mnltum prominente, subintegerrimo, 

 tballo concolore v. demnm + obscurascente, persistente. Hy- 



