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high, becoming blue with iodine; hypothecium pale, KOH. 

 Spores 8, fusiform, with rounded ends, more or less guttulate 

 (rarely faintly uniseptate), hyaline, 13-15 X 3 z^- 



Type collected on bark, Jamaica, B. W. 1. Clara E. Cummings 

 nos. 135 and 140, in the herbarium of Wellesley College. 



15. Biatora endocaerulea sp. nov. 



Thallus scanty, of scattered and irregularly heaped, discrete, 

 minute, crystalloid granules. Apothecia minute, under 0.5 mm. 

 in diameter, elevated, always emarginate, at first regularly sub- 

 globular, then proliferous and forming irregular gibbous masses, 

 reaching about i mm. in diameter. In section the entire apo- 

 thecium, including hymenium and hypothecium is a beautiful deep 

 indigo blue, turning clear green with KOH. Spores 8, hyaline, 

 simple, or rarely faintly uniseptate, narrow-oblong, 8-10 X 3-5 



Type collected on bark, Jamaica, B. W. 1. Clara E. Cummings 

 no. 161, in the herbarium of Wellesley College. 



16. Biatora lanuginosa sp. nov. 



Thallus white, byssine, thick and felt-like, made up of loose, 

 irregularly branching hyphae, 4-7 fx in diameter, with minutely 

 roughened walls, surrounding green, Pleurococcus-like gonidia. 

 Apothecia 0.5-1.5 mm. in diameter, disk dark brown, at first con- 

 cave with a thick, minutely pubescent, pale margin, which shows 

 a pinkish tinge, then becoming plane and strongly flexuous, and 

 the margin thin. Epithecium and hymenium hyaline; exciple of 

 radiating hyphae pale ferruginous ; body of apothecium pseudo- 

 parenchymatous, darker ferruginous ; hypothecium deep ferrugi- 

 nous-brown to brownish-black. Spores 8, hyaline, simple, oblong, 

 8-12 X 3-5-4 Hymenium greenish-blue with iodine. 



Type collected on the ground over matted roots, Jamaica, B. 

 W. I. Clara E. Cummings no. 121, in the herbarium of Wellesley 

 College. 



17. Biatora oncodes Tuck. Syn. N. A. L. 2: 157. 1888. 



Lecidea Tuck. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. 6 : 274. 

 1864. Cummings no. 119. 



18. Catillaria leptocheila (Tuck.) comb. nov. Lecidea Tuck, in 



Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. 6: 280. 1864. Hetero- 

 thecium Tuck. Syn. N. A. L. 2 : 55. 1888. Cummings 

 no. 149. 



19. Catillaria rosea sp. nov. 



Thallus thin to medium, creamy-fuscescent, verruculose- 



