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C. rubro-cinctum, Nyl., is found here, but as yet only in the sterile 
condition (Hypochnus rubro-cinctus, Ehrenb.) upon Bald Cypress (Ta.xo- 
dium distichum) in Louisiana (Hale). Spores (Lindig Herb. N. Gran. 
n. 2569) fusiform; quadrilocular; colourless. 
C. Montagnei (C. lacteum, Mont. Pl. Cell. Cub. p. 161, e specim. cel. 
auct., non Fée) has occurred fertile, but without perfect spores, on trunks in 
Louisiana (Hale). Spores (of the original Cuban lichen, since found algo 
by Mr. Wright) in eights, in obovate thekes; oblong-ovoid; muriform- 
multilocular; the length twice to twice and a half exceeding the diameter ; 
scarcely a little brownish. 
LIII.—GUYPHIS, Ach., Mont., Nyl. 
Mont. Crypt. Guy. p.59. Nyl. Enum. Gén.1.c. p. 134; in Prodr. Fl. N. Gran. 
p. 107; Syn. Lich. Nov. Cal. p. 82. Glyphis pro. p. (excl. G. tricosa) 
Ach. Syn. p. 106; in Linn. Trans. 12, p.35. Eschw. Syst. p.19; Lich. 
Bras. p. 164. Fr. 8.0. V. p. 271. Graphidis sp., Ach. L. U. p. 674. 
Trypethelii spp., Ach. in Schrad. Journ. Bot. Sarcographe sp., & 
Glyphis, Fée Ess. pp. 58, 61, & Suppl. pp. 43, 47, t.40.  Massal. Mem. 
p.113. Asterisce sp., & Glyphis, Mey. Entwick. pp. 331,332. Actino- 
glyphis & Glyphis, Mont. Syll. p. 355. Mass. Esam. p. 42. Stizenb. 
Beitr., 1. c. p. 152. 
Apothecia rotundata 1. oblonga, concava, nigra, in stromate albo 
conferta. Spore ex ellipsoideo oblonge eruceformesque, e quadri- 
pluriloculares, fuscescentes1.incolores. Spermatia haud visa. Thal- 
lus crustaceus, uniformis. 
The affinities of the small group before us have been already touched 
upon. So closely is it akin to Graphis, that G. tricosa, a species of the 
group represented by G. dendritica, may be said to constitute one extreme 
of a continuous series of forms, the other extreme of which is a Glyphis, 
intimately associable with G. labyrinthica. The latter makes no uncertain 
approaches, on the one hand towards G. heteroclita, and, on the other, 
towards the cluster represented by G. favulosa, and its place in the genus 
appears tolerably assured; bat Acharius referred it here in significant 
connection with his Graphis,—finally Glyphis tricosa; while Fée, and 
Meyer rejected both lichens to the Medusula-group. Nor did it escape 
Eschweiler (Lich. Bras. pp. 93, 102, 150) whose observations on the 
systematic value of the colour of the hypothecium, in the present tribe, 
are especially important, that the whole of Glyphis, as he knew it, might 
hereafter prove referable to Medusula, and thereby to Gruphidacei ; or 
Fries (L. E. p. 360) that this relegation might well be, so far at least as 
theory is concerned, to Graphis. 
The at length elongated patches (compound apothecia) of Glyphis 
labyrinthica are narrowed sometimes (Cuba, Mr. Wright) into lirelleform 
