14 BERNT LYNGE. M.-N. Kl. 



Apothecia very rare, at least in this country, but numerous or even 

 abundant when developed, urceolate or later concave, orbicular, 24,5 mm. 

 in diam. sessile or shortly pedicellate, narrowly affixed. Receptacle smooth, 

 of the same colour as the thallus, margin middle-thick, crenate, but not 

 appendiculate, at last sorediate. Disc brown or brownish-black, eprui- 

 nose. Gonidia glomerate, disposed in an incontinuous stratum, crowded at 

 the margin and within the pseudocortex, wanting under the hypothecium. 

 Hypothecium pale yellowish, 40 60 u thick. Hymenium up to 130 a thick, 

 at the upper part brown or reddish-brown, otherwise uncoloured. Para- 

 physes more conglutinate than in An.fusca, 

 filamentose, i /.i thick, a little incrassate at 

 the apices, unbranched or (frequently) furcate, 

 septa distinct only toward the apices. Asci 

 clavate, 90 105 it long, 29 32 , thick, 

 Fig. 2. Anaptychia speciosa octosporous. Spores obliquely biseriate, 



(WULF.) MASS. ellipsoidical with more or less obtuse apices, 



greyish or greyish-brown, somewhat constricted at the septum, very 

 thick-walled, with a small rounded or angular cell-room. Size 28 

 37,3 [i long, 13,5 18,8 in thick. (WAINIO measured smaller spores in 

 Brazilian plants 19 32X1 i? /') 1 - 



Pycnides very rare; fertile ones were sought after in vain. A sterile 

 pycnide with dark perifulcrium around the ostiolum was depresso-globose, 

 160 f.t broad, 105 ft high. (WAINIO states: pycnoconidia cylindrico-oblonga, 

 apicibus obtusis, recta, long. 0,003, crass. 0,001 0,0008 millim.) 2 . 



React. Pseudocortex and (especially) medulla yellow by 

 KOH. No colouring by CaCl 2 O 2 . Medulla first pale blue, then at 

 last intensely vinous-red by J, near the rhizinae sometimes persistently 

 blue. Hymenium intensely dark bluish-green or bluish-black, later dark 

 red by J. (WAINIO has found: Hymenium Jodo persistenter caerulescens) :i . 



Hab. In this country only recorded from mossy stones (in southern 

 regions also corticolous). 



Loc. In Norway a subalpine and occasionally a lowland species. 

 Recorded from several stations, but in small quantities, and is decidedly a 

 rare species. Kristiania (M. N. BLYTT, never found since), not unfre- 

 quent in Gudbrandsdalen : Ringebu (c. fr., M. N. BLYTT and SOMRFT.), 

 Fron (KI^ER), Kringen (Tn. FRIES who writes Kringelen), Lalm (LYNGE), 

 Vaage (c. fr., SOMRFT.), Dovre (c. fr., M. N. BLYTT et SCHIMPER), Valders: 



1 WAINIO Etude p. 136137. 



2 WAINIO Etude p. 137. 



3 WAINIO Etude p. 136. 



