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longa, nano-convexa, excentrice vel sublateraliter aperientia, infcrne 

 thallo velata; perithecium basi deficiens, lateraliter anguloso-produe- 

 tum, duplo et ultra latius quam altum; nuclei paraphyses cohserentes 

 et asci lineares subhorizonfaliter siti; sporse tenuissimse, cire. 60^ 

 longse et 1 7^ latae, undique subsequilatse, subcapillares, transversim 

 pluries divisse. Sporse certe transversim divisas, suberebre, at nume- 

 rus loculorum determinari haud potuit. — Species nulli nisi transwaa- 

 liensi PL trichosporo Mûll. Arg. {Lichen. Beitr., n° 1104) affinis est, sed 

 apothecia multo minora, vix ut in Arthopy renia punctiformi, et sporse 

 angustiores. 



Ad corticem Berberidîs ilicifolice, baie Orange, Terre de Feu (Hariot, 

 n° 52 pr. min. p.J. 



86. Coccotuejia antarcticum Mùller Arg. 



Tballus carneo-pallidus, tenuissimus, continuus, instratus v. ssepe 

 vix distinctus, nodulos sphsericos apothecium includentes copiosos 

 gerens; noduli monocarpici v. hinc inde duplices et triplices et 2-3- 

 carpici, simplices evoluti i mm lati, cseterum minores, globosi v. paullo 

 depresso-globosi, basi constricti, vertice modice depressi, i-oculati, 

 Iseves vel minute verruculosi v. subinde gibboso-insequales, intus pal- 

 lidi, in centro apothecium globosum ferentes ; perithecium carneo- 

 fuscidulum, strato thallino obscurius et pluries tenuius, apice in 

 ostiolum integrum abiens; paraphyses libéra?, tenues, flaccidse; sporse 

 in ascis oblongis 6-8-nse, ellipsoidese, 50^-60^ longse et 2o ll -3o !J - latse. 

 Habitu Perlusariam vel melius Thelotremalis speciem e sect. Ascidii 

 simulât, sed structura interior est angiocarpica, se. paraphyses et asci 

 erga centrum perithecii plus minusve convergunt, laxi, nec superne 

 in epithecium coadunati sunt. 



Genus his characteribus distinctum et juxta proximum Thelocaipon 

 Nyl. (Prvdr., p. r -3, etPyren., p. 9) locandum est : thallus crustaceus; 

 gonidia viridia,(depauperato-)chroolepoidea; apothecia in nodulis thal- 

 linis distinctis inclusa, pyrenodea, paraphyses liberse, sporse simplices, 

 hyalinse. 



