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58. Opegrapha (Ss. LECANACTIS) Féeana Müll. Arc; Arthonia confluens Fée 
Ess., p, 99, quoad plantam in Jacquiniæ cortice « apotheciis aterrimis et thallo cal- 
ceo-albo. » — Thallus calceo albus, crassiusculus, effusus, lævis, demum subfarinosus; 
apothecia */,, mm. lata, nigerrima, immersa, plana, semper nuda, margine nigro 
demum distinète prominente prædita, orbicularia, v. angulosa v. obtuse et breviter 
astroïdeo-angulosa, nune 2-4-seriatim in lirellam subnodosam confluentia; perithe- 
cium basi crassius, literaliter subtenue, primum spurie thallino-coronatum; epithe- 
cium obsoletum, fascidulum ; lamina subhyalina; hypothecium supra basin perithe- 
cialem erassiuseule fuscidulum ; paraphyses intricatim connexo-ramosæ; asci oblon- 
gati, 8-spori; sporæ hyalinæ, 17 4 longæ, 5-6'/, y latæ, late digitiformi-fusiformes 
v. utrinque obtusæ, G-loculares. — Guadeloupe, in cortice Jacquiniæ armillaris (ad 
specim. Féeana). 
9. Opegrapha (s. LECANACTIS) Quassiæ Müll. Arg.: Lecidea Quassiæ Fée 
Suppl. p. 104, t. 42. f. 13; Opegrapha plurilocularis (Ny1.) v. pruinosa Müll. Arg. 
L. B. n° 534, — Species loculis cubicis in lato halone facile distinguenda. — Quas- 
siæcola (ad specim. Féeana). 
9. MELASPILEA Müll. Arg. 
Iujus partes sunt : Melaspilea Nyl. Prodr. p.170; Tuck. Gen. p. 96; Almquist Monogr. Arthon. 
p. 8; Melanographa Müll. Arg. L. B. n° 535. Apothecia in thallo sparsa, lirellina; perithe- 
cium evolutum; paraphyses non clathratim connexæ, firmæ; sporæ fuscæ, transversim 
divisæ. — Genus in M. arthonioidem eonditum, ubi perithecium tantum rudimentarium, 
diu arthoniaceum creditum, melius opegraphinum est et ampliore sensu à meo genere Wela- 
nographa definite generice distingui non potest, quod dein prioritatis causa antepositum est. 
. Genus more Opegraphe, Graphine, aliorumque polytypicum et species in sectiones dis- 
tinctas ordinandæ sunt. — Sporæ omnium notarum aut 2-aut 4-loculares. 
Sect. 1. HoLoGraPHAa Müll. Arg. 
Perithecium completum; labia conniventia ; diseus rimiformis. — Hic pertinent : Melaspilea lenti- 
ginosa (Leïight. sub Opegrapha) ; M. opegraphoides Nyl. Prod. Nov. Gran. p. 111; M. bra- 
chycarpa Müll. Arg. L. B. n° 302; M. maicrospilota Nyl. Syn. Lich. Nov. Caled. p. 68; 
Melaspilea microcarpa, se. Melanographa microcarpa Müll. Arg. L. B. n° 536; Melaspilea 
leucina, se. Melanographa leucina Müll. Arg. L. B. n° 537 (ultimæ 2 sporis 4-locularibus, 
reliquæ 2-locularibus præditæ). 
