spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 12 mic. long and 4 to 5.5 mic. wide.

Collected on Little Mountain in Lake County, and in Hocking County. On
logs in woods. Not previously reported from Ohio, and probably rare in
the State.


6. Lecidea humicola (Ach.) comb. nov.

_Lecidea uliginosa humicola_ Ach. Meth. Lich. 43. 1903.

Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black
granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark
brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous
exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium
dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses
coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to
7 mic. wide.

Collected in Hocking County. On soil in a moist wood. Not previously
reported from North America.


7. Lecidea uliginosa (Schrad.) Ach. Meth. Lich. 43. 1803.

_Lichen uliginosus_ Schrad. Spic. Fl. Germ. 88. 1794.

Thallus of scattered, clustered, or even heaped, irregular and minute,
green-olive to rust-brown, or even brown-black, somewhat raised and
rarely coralloid granules, these forming a scattered or continuous