On wood, or on bark.
On dead wood 1. B. _myriocarpa_
On bark 2. B. _parasema_


1. Buellia myriocarpa (Lam. & DC.) Mudd. Man. Brit. Lich. 217. 1861.

_Patellaria myriocarpa_ Lam. & DC. Fl. ed. 3. 2: 346. 1805.

Thallus a thin and scurfy, smooth or chinky, or thicker and
roughened-verrucose, ash- to green-gray, or darkening crust, irregularly
spread over small areas, and rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to
small, 0.2 to 0.6 mm. in diameter, often numerous, black, adnate, flat
and bordered by an exciple, or becoming convex with the exciple
sometimes covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale, or pale below
and pale brown above; paraphyses distinct, but sometimes loosely
coherent; asci clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 7 to 16 mic. long and 4
to 7.5 mic. wide.

Collected in Butler and Lake counties. On dead wood, especially posts
and boards. Also reported from Cuyahoga County. An inconspicuous fungus,
doubtless distributed widely in the State.


2. Buellia parasema (Ach.) Koerb. Syst. Lich. 228. 1855.

_Lichen parasemus_ Ach. Lich. Suec. 64. 1798.

Thallus usually continuous and smooth, but sometimes becoming thicker
and roughened, granulate, chinky, or finally areolate, ash- to