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‘Tribe I]. GRAPHIDACEI, Eschw., Fr, Nyl. 
Oprcrarma varia (Pers.) Fr., v. pulicaris, Fr. Coast; 
. Mr. Bolander. Var. diaphora, Fr. Sund-stcne, San 
Bruno mtns; The same. Var. rimalis, Fr. Coust; 
Mr. Wright. 
O. vulgata, Ach., Ny]. Coast of Calif., Mr. Bolander. 
Tribe IV. CALICIACEI. (*) _ 
Spuerornorts globiferus (L.) DC. Coast, on trees ; Mr. 
Bolander. Vancouver's Island; Dr. Lyall. 
Acoriea Californicum, Tuck. (Trachylia, Obs. Lich.) 
Coast-rocks ; Mr. Bolander. 
Acoritm Bolanderi (sp. nova) thallo areolato-verrucoso 
~— fulvo-cinereo hypothatlo nigricante subifimbriato ; apoth- 
ectis tn verrucis mastoideis innatis, disco suhplano nigro, 
margine obsoleto. Spore in thecis cylindraceis octone, 
spherice. simplices, fusce. Sandstone rocks on the 
Coast ; Mr. Bolander. Very rarely (ina large collec- 
tion of specimens) the wart-like areoles are flattened 
and obsenrely crennlate at the cirenmference ; but 
there is no approach to the plaited and lobulate 
thallus of the preceding species. The apothecial 
warts of A. Culifornicum reach at length a line in 
height, exceeding that inthe diameter. Those of the 
present are rather smaller, the largest scarcely at- 
taining toa line of height or diameter. Internally, 

(*) Of the two genera which sow constitute the Tribe Spha- 
rophoracei of authors, Acroseyphus. Lev , Mont., is, from the 
prevent writer's point of view. indnbitubly Caliciaceons - and 
might be called a fruticulose Acolium. Spherophorus is by no 
means »sclear: bat I shall attempt to shew. in another place, 
tha: however remarkable tae thallus of this type, its frnit is at 
least conceivable as an extreme deformation of that of Aco/ium. 
This latter name. proposed by De Notaris in 1847, is adopted 
here in place of Trachylia, as the designation of the earliest 
te statement of the genus, as now unders 
