Flechten, im Hochlande Ecuadors gesammelt von 
Prof. D. Hans Meyer im Jahre 1903. 
% 
Yon 
Kustos Dr. A. Zahlbruckner. 
Y T ien. 
Ascoliclienes. 
Diploschistaceae. 
1. Diploschistes scriiposas (L.) Korm. f. argillosus (Ach.) 
A. Zahlbr. 
Chimborazo: Auf dem Erdboden, bei 4200 m Seehöhe 
[Kr. 338]. 
Lecideaceae. 
2. Lecidea (sect. Bicitord) polytropoides A. Zahlbr. 
spec. nov. 
Thallus plagas formans rotundatas, 1,5—2 cm latas, subcon- 
tinuus, areolato-rimulosus vel verruculoso-subareolatus, verrucis 
depressis vel modice convexis, usque 3 mm latis, confluentibus, 
tenuibus vel sat crassiusculis (usque 1,5 mm altis), stramineus vel 
nonnihil cinerascenti - expallescens, opacus, in superficie sub- 
pulverulentus vel fere granulosus, KHO-, CaCbCb-, KHO — CaClaOa 
levissime flavescens, ecorticatus ; medulla dilute rufescente, ex 
hvphis non amvloideis formata; gonidiis pleurococcoideis, 7—10 u 
latis. Apothecia sessilia, ut plurimum valde approximata et plus 
minus conftuentia vel subbotryosa, carneo-straminea, parva, 
0.3—1 mm lata, mollia, madefacta cerina, rotunda vel pressione 
mutua irregularia, plana vel convexiuscula; margine proprio 
thallo concolore, tenuissimo, parurn prominulo, integro, demum 
depresso; excipulo ex liyphis formato radiantibus, arcte congluti- 
natis, in margine obscuratis, non pseudoparenchymatico: hymenio 
in parte superiore fuscescenti-obscm’ato, in parte inferiore decolore, 
I coeruleo; hypothecio decolore, ex hyphis dense contextis lepto- 
dermaticis formato, zonae gonidiali non imposito; paraphysibus 
conglutinatis, simplicibus, eseptatis, apice haud latioribus; ascis 
cylindraceo-clavatis, hymenio parurn brevioribus, 8 sporis; sporis 
decoloribus. oblongo-ovalibus, ovalibus vel late ellipsoideis. apicibus 
