Thallus a continuous, smooth or slightly roughened, ash-gray and
darkening crust; apothecia minute, 0.15 to 0.25 mm. in diameter, adnate
or partly immersed, flesh-colored to yellow-brown, flat to slightly
convex, the concolorous and inconspicuous exciple soon covered;
hypothecium and hymenium pale; paraphyses sometimes distinct, but more
commonly coherent-indistinct; asci clavate; spores simple, hyaline,
ellipsoid, 5 to 7 mic. long and 2.5 to 3 mic. wide.

Collected near Painesville in Lake County. On pebbles in a moist wood.
The type specimen is deposited in the writer's herbarium, and a cotype
may be seen in the State Herbarium.


3. Lecidea varians Ach. Syn. Meth. Lich. 38. 1914.

Thallus of very minute, raised or flattened, green-gray to yellow-green
granules, these forming a thin but continuous, smooth or
granulate-rugose, often chinky crust, usually bordered and often
decussated by black lines; apothecia minute, 0.12 to 0.25 mm. in
diameter, often clustered or even conglomerate, adnate, from pale yellow
to brown and finally black, flat with a thin exciple to convex with
covered exciple; hypothecium pale to pale yellow; hymenium pale below,
but often yellow or blue-violet above; paraphyses usually coherent,
distinct or indistinct; asci clavate; spores oviod-ellipsoid, 7 to 15
mic. long and 5 to 7.5 mic. wide.

Collected in Adams County. On maple bark. Also reported from Franklin
County. The plant is so minute and inconspicuous as to be very difficult
to detect and is probably distributed widely in the State.