ovoid, 5-6 locular, .012-17 by .004-6 mm. Reaction dark vinous 
re d.— Pr. N. Gr. p. 573.—New Grenada. Nyl.' Syn. N. Caled. p. 
62, says there is little difference between this and the preceding. 
83* A. vernicis. Mull. Arg. Thallus inconspicuous, forming a 
yellowish ash-colored or white stain. Apoth. blackish-brown, sub- 
orbicular, incised-lobate at the circumference, plane, persistently 
veiled by the rimose-erumpent epidermis, whence greyish-black. 
Spores cylindrical-obovoid, at length brown, 5-6 locular, .011-15 by 
.005-6 mm.— Flora 1879, p. 487.— Japan 
84. A. pyrrhuliza, Nyl. Thallus thin, white, limited by a nar¬ 
row dark line. Apoth. reddish, slender, variously divided. Spores 
ovoid, brown or decolorate, 4 locular, .012-15 by .0045 mm. Reac¬ 
tion from blue dark red.— Flora 1885, p. 447. On holly, oak, pine 
and other trunks, New Bedford, the spores now 5 locular. White 
Mountains, H. Mann; Vermont, C. G. Pringle; and perhaps the 
same, New York, Willey.— A. meduscea Tuck, in lift, ad Nyl., a 
coarser, blackening lichen, with larger spores, reaching .016-23 by 
.006-8 mm., is what he afterwards supposed to be A. pyrrhula , and 
has been distributed with the plant described by Nyl. under that 
name. The two probably do not differ. 
85. A. astropica, Kph. Thallus thin, pale. Apoth. brown, 
plane, stellate radiate, somewhat thickened and obtuse at the ex¬ 
tremities, or more rarely difform-ramulose. Spores 4, ovoid. 4 locu¬ 
lar, .017-19 by .006-7 mm. — Flora 1873, p. 2, (in reprint.) — China. 
86. A. fuscoalfoella, Nyl. Thallus thin, white, determinate. 
Apoth. brownish-black or brown, or becoming paler, minute, ob- 
long-difform or subramose, plane or uneven, within paler. Spores 
oblong or ovoid-oblong, 4 locular, .016-20 by .006-7 mm. Reaction 
vinous red.— Pr . N. Gr., p. 100. Fxs. Lindig, n. 850, 2883. — New 
Grenada. 
87. A. pulicosa, Nyl. Thallus white, effuse, rugose-uneven, or 
plieate-diffract. Apoth. brown or brownish-black, when wet brown¬ 
ish-red, oblong, (rounded or sublinear or somewhat difform,) plane, 
small, often somewhat crowded, within pale. Spores oblong-ovoid, 
at length brown, 4 locular, .011-16 by .0045 mm. Reaction blue.— 
Pr. N. Gr. p. 100.—New Grenada. 
88. A. ulcerosa In. Nyl. Thallus thin, white. Apoth. pale- 
brown, minute, ulcerose-heaped, elongate-difform, somewhat prui- 
nose. Spores ovoid, 4-6 locular, .018-21 by .007-8 mm. Reaction 
from blue dark red.— Andam., p. 15-—Mauritius. 
89. A. circuinalhicans, Nyl. Thallus thin, white, obscurely 
limited. Apoth. blackening, minute, subangulose or sublobate, 
surrounded by a white, thin, or obsolete proper margin, enclosed in 
