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Type specimen preserved in herbarium Merrill. 



A handsome little plant reposing in the herbaria of this Country under a 

 variety of names. 



Fig. I. Physcia speciosa var. minor Merrill. 



Fig. I — Physcia speciosa var. minor Merrill 



Lecanora {Rinodina) exigua (Ach.) Nyl. Flora., p. 197. 1873. 



On Viburnum. Sanford, S. Rapp. 



Apothecia very minute. 



Biatora (Catillaria) endochroma (Fee), comb. nov. 



Apothecia primarily with a distinctly yellow proper exciple, which is at 

 length excluded, disk black, the exciple blackening. Hymenium colorless, 

 hypothecium thick and brown, paraphyses not well distinguished except at their 

 knobbed tips, asci crowded and ventricose-clavate, epithecium black. Spores 

 8 in each ascus, i-septate, fusiform-ellipsoid, colorless, 13-23 x 5.5-7 m hymenial 

 gel. with I + blue wine-red. 



On Magnolia glauca, Sanford, S. Rapp. 



Recorded from Florida in the Calkins-Eckfeldt list, but without data. 

 Biatora (Bacidia) umbrina (Ach.) Tuck. Gen. p. 167. 



Thallus little visible. Apothecia convex, black, margin soon excluded. 

 Spores 8 in each ascus, fusiform-acicular, not curved, septa invisible, 24 x 2 

 Hymenium co orless or blackening upwards, asci ventricose-clavate, paraphyses 

 distinct, lax, hypothecium colorless. 



On fragment from an old tombstone, Sanford, S. Rapp. 



New to Florida. 



Opegrapha prosodea forma diaphora Tuck. Lich. Calif, p. 32. 



Thallus limited by a dark line, smooth, greenish, fuscescent or olivaceous. 

 Apothecia superficial, prominent, from ovoid much extended, linear, flexuous or 

 stellate, terminations obtuse, about i mm. in width, 2-4 mm. n length, the disk 



