108 Prof. Santo Garovaglio on the Species of 



Cohors III. 



Epithecio tenui, dimidiato, carbonaceo; paraphysibus raro dis- 

 tinctis, plerumque obsoletis, vel in massam granuloso-floc- 

 cosam cite difHiLxis; ascis clavato-elongatis sublinearibusve, 

 octosporis ; spovis duplici sat regular! serie intra ascos col- 

 lectis, gracillimis, fusiformi-acicularibus, vel angustato-ellip- 

 ticis, incurvis, primum unilocularibus, tribus vel quatuor 

 ocellis rotundis minutis prseditis^ dein bilocularibus cum 

 loculis elongato-cylindricis acuminatis, postremum quadri- 

 locularibvis cum vel absque ocellis. (Species unica, corticola.) 



1. V. oxyspora,'Ny\. = Zw. 'Exs. 107 ; Rabenb. 117; Heppe, 

 460 ; Mass. Ital. 352. 



Cohors IV. 



Epithecio carbonaceo, crasso, subintegro, cum tunica arete laxeve 

 conjuncto; paraphysibus creberrimis, gracilibus, filiformibus, 

 flexuosis, interdum in frustula fatiscentia solutis ; ascis elon- 

 gatis, cylindricis, vel linearibus, circa basim attenuatis, octo- 

 sporis ; sporis plerumque in una rectilinea serie ad invicem 

 verticaliter aut oblique sibi succedentibus, rarius duplici con- 

 fuso ordine congregatis, ovoideo-ellipticis, obtusiusculis (s. 

 cocciformibus), quandoque torulosis, csetcrum coloratis s. 

 fulvis vel fuliginosis, quadrilocularibus, passim bi- triloculari- 

 bus, loculis septo tenuissimo, sa^pe obsoleto, divisis, duobus 

 interpositis prismatico-tetragonis, binis extimis obtuse co- 

 nicis, omnibus ocellulatis, ocellis in singulis vel pluribus, 

 rhombeis, subrotundis vel ellipticis. (Species omnes corticolse, 

 monoicse vel dioicse.) 



1. V. nitida, Schrad. = Borrer, E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2607. f. 1 ; 

 Leight. Ang. Lich. t. 15. f. 3 ; M. & N. 365 a b. 



f. //ifl;'or=Sch8er. Exs. Ill ; Heppe, 467. 

 f. mmor=: Leight. Exs. 28; Heppe, 468. 



2. V. (jiahrata, Ach. = Schfer. Exs. 110; M. & N. 950; Zw. 

 Exs. 34, 35 ; Leight. Ang. Lich. 1. 18. f. 4; Heppe, 227. 



f. coryli, Nyl. = Rabenh. 85 ; Heppe, 455. 



Appendix. 

 V. quercus, Garov. = Schser. Exs. 105; Zw. Exs. 33, 215. 



The plates contain sections of the apothecia, asci, and spori- 

 dia : — 



VerrucarifS uniloculares. 



Tab. I. fig. 1. V. aherrans. Gar. 2. V. hydrela, Ach. 3. V. cethio- 

 bola, Ach. 4. * V. submersa, Schser. 5. V. plumbea, Ach. 



