I9l6. No. 8. MONOGRAPH OF THE NORWEGIAN PHYSCIACEAE. 



Apothecia large, gonidia glomerate, placed in the margin and (in 

 Anapt. fused] under the hypothecium or (in Anapt. speciosa and Anapt. ciliaris] 

 within the pseudocortex. Hypothecium pale. Paraphyses easily discrete, 

 thin, incrassate at the apices, septate, undivided or not unfrequently furcate 

 or branched towards the apices. Asci octosporous. Spores brown, one- 

 septate, ellipsoidical, constricted at the septum, large (ca. 2540X13 20 <). 



Perifulcrium dark at the ostiolum, otherwise uncoloured, or darkened 

 with age, fulcra endobasidial, pycnoconidia short, straight, cylindrical or 

 narrowly ellipsoidical. 



Chemical reaction. No colouring by CaCl 2 O 2 . Reaction with KOH 

 important, characteristic of the species. Hymenium first blue by J, then 

 sordid vinous red, asci sometimes persistently blue. 



Clavis specierum. 



i. Thallus brown. I. Anapt. fusca. 



i* Thallus white or grey. 



2. Thallus white, sorediate, without marginal cilia, KOH yellow. 



2. Anapt. speciosa 



2* Thallus greyish, not sorediate, with spreading marginal cilia, 

 KOH negative. 3. Anapt. ciliaris. 



i. Anaptychia fusca, (HUDS.) WAIN. 



Lichen fuscus HUDSON Flora Anglica edit. II (1798) p. 533. WAHLENBERG 

 Flora Lapponica (1812) p. 426. 



Lichen aquilus ACHARIUS Prodromus (1798) p. 109. 



Parmelia aquila ACHARIUS Methodus (1803) p. 201. ACHARIUS Liche- 

 nographia Universalis (1810) p. 488. KOERBER Systema Lich. Germ. (1855) 

 p. 89. JATTA Sylloge Lich. Ital. (1900) p. 144. 



Anaptychia aquila MASSALONGO Memorie lichenogr. (1853) p. 36, fig. 31. 



Physcia aquila NYLANDER Prodromus Lich. Gall. Actes de la Soc. 

 Linn, de Bord. (1857) p. 309. NYLANDER Synopsis Lichenum vol. I (1860) 

 p. 422. TH. FRIES Lich. Arctoi (1860) p. 62. NYLANDER Lich. Scand. 

 (1861) p. no. TH. FRIES Lich. Scand. I (1871) p. 134. KINDT Bidrag til 

 Kundskab om Trondhjems Lavvegitation. Kgl. Norske Vid.-Selsk. Skrifter 

 (1880) p. 29 (Trondhjem 1881). CROMBIE Brit. Lich. I (1894) P- 3 IQ - 

 HAVAAS Floristiske undersegelser. Berg. Mus. Aarb. 1897, no - ^> P- 9- 

 GLUCK Morpholog. d. Flechtenspermog. Verh. des Naturhist.-Mediz. Vereins 

 zu Heidelberg, vol. VI. N. F. (1899) p. 146 (66) fig. 3738. OLIVIER 



