_Lecidea melaena_ Nyl. Bot. Not. 1853: 182. 1853.

Thallus of minute, olive-green to black-brown granules, these forming a
thin, granulose or scurfy, sometimes disappearing crust; apothecia
minute to small, 0.25 to 0.55 mm. in diameter, black-brown to black,
sessile, occurring singly or in clusters, strongly convex to subglobose,
the exciple soon covered; hypothecium pale brown to red-brown; hymenium
pale or tinged brown; paraphyses coherent, semi-distinct to indistinct;
asci clavate to inflated-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid or dactyloid,
2- to 4-celled, 12 to 22 mic. long and 4 to 6 mic. wide.

Collected in Lake County. On an old log in a wood. Not previously
reported in Ohio, and rare in the State.

Nylander called the apothecium pale within, but forms with red-brown
hypothecia are admitted by later writers.


5. Bilimbia microcarpa Th. Fr. Bot. Not. 1863: 8. 1863.

_Bilimbia obscurata microcarpa_ Th. Fr. Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Ups. III. 3:
183. 1861.

Thallus of minute ash-gray or green-gray granules, these rarely forming
a thin or moderately thick, subcontinuous, verrucose crust, but more
often scattered or disappearing entirely; apothecia minute to small,
0.25 to 0.7 mm. in diameter, scattered or conglomerate, dirty brown to
black, soon becoming convex and subglobose, with the pale exciple then
covered; hypothecium pale to pale red-brown; hymenium pale; asci clavate
to inflated-clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores fusiform,