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F. detrita, T. & B. Apoth. depressed, dark purple, naked, 
more or less stellate.— height . 1 . e., p. 400. — England. 
F. astroidea, T. & B. Apoth. rather large, clustered, stellate, 
dark reddish-black and blackening. — height., 1 . c., p. 400. Eng¬ 
land. 
Var. violacea, (Pers.) Nyl. Apoth. violet, the hypothecium 
almost colorless. Spores 5-locular, pale brown. — A. violacea Pers. 
in Nyl. Artli., p. 89 — Ladrone Islands. 
Var. adspersa, (Mont.) Nyl. Apoth. violet-brown, obtuse or 
sublobate, the margin white pruinose. Spores .020-23 by .007-8 
mm. — Ustalia, Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. 2, xvm, p. 278. Arthoma 
Nyl. Arth., p. 89, Pr. N. Gr.,p.gy. Puck. Gen., p. 220 Kph. 
Sad. See. Ins., p. 15. A. adspersa Nyl. N. Zeal., 1888, p. 19; " vix 
nisi subsp. A. cinnabarinoeP A. albida Kn. M Mitt. N. Zeal., p. 
105 ,fide Nyl. N. Zeal, heiogramma tenellum Fschw. Braz., p. 
1 o 1, fide Mull. Arg. Revis. Eschw. hi, p. 9. ConioIonia coccineum, 
Eschw. Braz.,p. 170, fide Mull. Arg. 1 . c. II, p. 13. — Kph. 1 . c. 
finally concludes that it is a distinct species.—Tropical. Florida in 
hb. Tuck. 
Var. substellata, (Eschw.) Mull. Arg. Thallus white, limited 
by a dark border, reddening when wet. Apoth. linear, short and 
stout, stellate-fewradiate, when dry blackish, when wet brown or 
reddish-brown, within reddish, turgid, naked. Spores brown. A. 
polymorpha v. substellata, Eschw. Praz. p. 113, excl.syn.: Mull. 
Arg. Revis. II, p. 12. — Brazil. 
Var. opegrapliina, Leight., referred to by Mull. Arg. in Peitr., 
n. 1492, who cites Jxight. Gr. Brit., p. 423, is not found in the first 
edition of that work, but is mentioned in Grevillea , 1872, p. 59, and 
t. 4, f. 7, as A. astroidea v. opegrapliina Ach. and is referred to A. 
gregaria, as is also A. epipastoides Nyl. (/. 4,/'. 8.) The spores as 
figured agree with those of A. gregaria. But the plant last named 
is certainly not the true epipastoides Nyl. Muller’s plant occurs in 
Cochin China. — Leighton’s plants may perhaps well be referred to 
v. anerythrcea. 
44. A. oehrocincta, Nyl. Apoth. minute, numerous, rounded, 
plane, the disk white pruinose, the margin crimson. — Flora 1886,7b 
104 (nomen.) Exs. Aright. Cub., n. 134, 212. — Hardly more than 
a form of the preceding. 
45- A. Meissueri, Mull. Arg. Thallus -. Apoth. purple ox- 
dark crimson-brown, orbicular and oblong, often stelloid-confiuent. 
naked. Spores pyriiorm-panduriform, 4 locular, the two middle' 
cells smaller, .010-14 by .0045-55 mm - — Graphid. Fee. p. 54. Co- 
niocarpon extension Meissn. in Fie Suppl . , p. 95 and t. 42, f. c. 
hecidea cuticula ibid., p. 109, non Fss. p. 112.—Tropical in hb. F6e. 
