E. WAINIO, LICHENES PROPE PITLEKAI COLLECT!. 125 



cohaerentes, ramoso-connexae. Asci clavati, apice membrana 

 incrassata. Sporae 8:nae, distichae, simplices aut parce etiam 

 1-septatae, decolores, oblongae, long. 0,009 — 0,oii, crass. 

 0,003 — 0,004 millim. ■ — Hypothecio pallido, hymenio jodo per- 

 sistenter caerulescente et granulis thalli neque elongatis, nee 

 constipatis a *L. hninosa differt. 



Ad plantas destructas supra terrain arenosam in penin- 

 sula Jinretlen. 



32. L. delicatula Wain. (n. sp.). 



Thallus crustaceus, sat crassus aut mediocris, farinoso- 

 granulosus, albidus, neque KHO, nee CaCUOo reagens, at his 

 reagentiis unitis leviter rubescens, hypothallo indistincto. 

 Apothecia thallo adnata, thallum vix superantia, 0,3 — 0,2 

 millim. lata, nigricantia aut fusco-nigra, nuda, opaca, tenuia, 

 disco piano, laevi, margine tenui. Excipulum in latere ru- 

 fescens, sat tenue, in basi dilute rufescens aut pallidum, tenue 

 aut tenuissimum, thallo adnatum, ex hyphis cum hymenio et 

 peripheria apothecii subparallelis formatum, tenuibus, conglu- 

 tinatis. Hypothecium pallidum, tenue, ex hyphis irregula- 

 riter contextis formatum, cavitatibus cellularum parvis, sub- 

 globosis. Hymenium circ. 0,070 — 0,080 millim. crassum, 

 jodo f ulvescens. Epithecium fuscescenti-pallidum, KHO non 

 reagens. Paraphyses laxe cohaerentes, mediocres, apice cla- 

 vatae, simplices. Asci cylindrici aut cylindrico-clavati, mem- 

 brana tota tenui. Sporae 8:nae, monostichae aut rarius di- 

 stichae, subglobosae, simplices, decolores, long. 0,006 — 0,008, 

 crass. 0,005 — 0,006 millim. Gonidia cystococcacea, globosa, 

 diam. 0,010 — 0,018 millim., membrana sat tenui, vulgo simpli- 

 cia, interdum globulos virides plures continentia. — L. humosae 

 est af finis, at pluribus notis ab ea differens. 



Supra muscos et alia vegetabilia plus minusve destructa 

 in regione orientem versus a sinu Koljutschin sita. 



33. L. Tornoensis Nyl., Herb. Mus. Fenn. (1859) p. 

 110, Enum. Lieh. Fret. Behr. (1888) p. 21, 45, 54, 66, 68, 

 Lieh. Jap. (1890) p. 61; Th. Fr., Lieh. Scand. II (1874) p. 464, 

 On Lieh. Engl. Pol. Exp. (1879) p. 360; Almqu., Lieh. laktt. 

 Sib. (1879) p. 47, 55 (33, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 49, 51: Biatora), 

 Lieh. Kust. Beringsm. (1887) p. 526 (520, 522: Biatora); 

 Deichm. Branthet Groenl., Groenl. Lieh. (1888) p. 496; Deichm. 

 Branth, Till. Groenl. Lieh. (1892) p. 755, Lieh. Isl. (1903) p. 

 213; Wain., Lieh. Caucas. (1899) p. 322. Biatora Th. Fr., 



