9. Lecidea flexuosa (Fr.) Nyl. Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. 21. 356. 1856.

_Biatora flexuosa_ Fr. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1822: 267. 1822.

Thallus of small or minute, flattened or rugose, scattered or clustered,
ash-grey to green-gray granules, these bursting into sorediate heaps, or
forming a moderately thick, areolate crust; apothecia minute to small,
0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, black, and flat, the thin, livid or
darker, persistent exciple becoming flexuous; hypothecium pale or darker
brown; hymenium tinged brown; paraphyses coherent, semi-distinct to
indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 5 to 10
mic. long and 3 to 5 mic. wide.

Collected in Preble, Adams, Ross, and Butler counties. On dead wood. Not
previously reported from Ohio, and rare, though probably distributed
widely in the State.

The spores are slightly below normal size in our specimens.


10. Lecidea enteroleuca Ach. Lich. Univ. 177. 1810.

Thallus thin or becoming moderately thick, smooth or more often
granulate, chinky or areolate, the granules or verrucae rarely becoming
heaped in the thicker forms, ash- to green-gray, occurring in rounded
areas, or irregularly and often widely spread over the substratum;
apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.35 to 1.2 mm. in diameter, adnate,
black, flat to more commonly convex, the frequently flexuous exciple