composed of rounded and often crowded or even heaped granules, these
frequently compacted into a continuous or scattered, verrucose and often
chinky, green-gray to olivaceous crust; apothecia small to large, 0.6 to
1.75 mm. in diameter, dark brown to black, adnate or sessile, flat or
slightly convex, the concolorous or lighter exciple frequently becoming
flexuous; hypothecium pale yellow to dark brown; hymenium pale yellow;
paraphyses coherent, distinct to semi-distinct: asci long-clavate;
spores about 7- to 15-celled, 40 to 70 mic. long and 2.5 to 3.5 mic.
wide.

Collected in Fairfield, Hocking, and Adams counties. On bark. Evidently
a rare fungus in Ohio.


5. Bacidia inundata (Fr.) Koerb. Syst. Lich. 187. 1855.

_Biatora inundata_ Fr. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1822: 270. 1822.

Thallus of minute granules, these usually compacted into a thin or
rarely thicker, granulate, chinky, or subareolate, ash- or green-gray or
darkening, commonly wide-spread, continuous or scattered crust;
apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 0.75 mm. in diameter, pale
brown to finally black, adnate or rarely more or less immersed, usually
flat and bordered by the commonly lighter colored exciple, rarely
becoming convex, the exciple then finally covered; hypothecium pale to
brown; hymenium pale to pale brown; paraphyses coherent, semi-distinct
to indistinct; asci clavate to long-clavate, spores 4- to 8-celled, 15
to 40 mic. long and 1.5 to 2.6 mic. wide.

Collected in Butler, Preble, Highland, Adams, Warren, and Lake counties.