_Micarea prasina_ Fr. Syst. Orb. Veg. 257. 1825.

Thallus of minute, closely clustered or even heaped granules, these
forming a wide-spread, frequently subleprose, green-gray to dark-olive
crust; apothecia minute to small, 0.2 to 0.5 mm. in diameter, adnate,
commonly carneous or darkening, more or less convex and usually becoming
convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium pale or pale brown;
hymenium pale below and commonly darker above; paraphyses coherent,
semi-distinct to indistinct; asci clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 8 to
12 mic. long and 3.5 to 5 mic. wide.

Collected on Little Mountain in Lake County. On a rotten log. Not
previously reported from Ohio, and evidently rare in the State.

Simple spores were seen in the specimens collected, but they were
supposed to be immature.


3. Biatorina lentibularis (Ach.) Koerb. Syst. Lich. 191. 1855.

_Lecidea lentibularis_ Ach. Syn. Meth. Lich. 28. 1814.

Thallus a thin, smooth or subtartareous, rarely rimose-areolate,
ash-white to brown-gray, wide-spread and continuous or finally
disappearing crust; apothecia minute to small, 0.2 to 0.5 mm. in
diameter, adnate, black, from flat becoming convex and often irregular,
the inconspicuous exciple then becoming covered; hypothecium pale to
darker brown; hymenium pale or tinged brown; paraphyses distinct to
coherent-indistinct; asci clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 8 to 11 mic.
long and 2.7 to 4 mic. wide.