Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6: The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and VFink, Bruce
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Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6: The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
Fink, Bruce
Ascomycetes
Thallus of minute, gray-green, often heaped granules, these forming a
continuous, thin or thicker crust; apothecia minute to small, 0.2 to 0.4
mm. in diameter, adnate, flesh-colored to red-brown, flat to convex and
subglobose, the inconspicuous, concolorous exciple soon covered;
hypothecium and hymenium pale; paraphyses usually coherent-indistinct;
asci clavate; spores fusiform-ellipsoid, 4-celled, 12 to 20 mic. long
and 4 to 6 mic. wide.
Collected on Little Mountain, in Lake County. On a rotten log in a wood.
Rare in Ohio, and its distribution unknown.
The plant is typical internally, but is young with small, flat or
slightly convex, light-colored apothecia.
2. Bilimbia hypnophila (Ach.) Th. Fr. Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups. III.
3: 283. 1861.
_Lecidea hypnophila_ Ach. Lich. Univ. 199. 1810.
Thallus of minute, usually crowded, sometimes confluent granules, these
forming an ash- or green-gray, thin, leprose or subgranulose, sometimes
scattered and disappearing crust; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2
to 0.75 mm. in diameter, light brown to black, adnate to sessile,
scattered or clustered, becoming strongly convex and the exciple
becoming covered; hypothecium pale or darker brown; hymenium pale, or
tinged brown below and more plainly brown above; paraphyses coherent,
semi-distinct to indistinct; asci clavate or long-clavate; spores
ellipsoid to fusiform, 4- to 8-celled, 16 to 35 mic. long and 4 to 8
mic. wide.
Collected in Preble, Hocking, and Adams counties. Over mosses on rocks
or bases of trees; or rarely on rocks, soil, bark, or wood. Not
previously reported from Ohio, and not a common fungus in the State.
3. Bilimbia naegelii (Hepp) Zwackh. Flora. 45: 505. 1862.
_Biatora naegelii_ Hepp, Spor. Flecht. Eur. pl. 4. f. 1. 19. 1853.
Thallus of usually flattened granules, these commonly running together
to form a moderately thin, more or less roughened, often chinky, ash- or
green-gray, or darkening, limited or rarely wide-spread crust; apothecia
minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 0.9 mm. in diameter, adnate or rarely
sessile, flesh-colored to dark brown, scattered or clustered, flat with
the thin exciple visible to strongly convex with the exciple covered;
hypothecium pale or tinged brown; hymenium pale throughout or tinged
brown above; paraphyses coherent, semi-distinct to indistinct; asci
clavate; spores fusiform-ellipsoid, 4- to 8-celled, 18 to 25 mic. long
and 3 to 4 mic. wide.
Collected in Highland County. On bark. Not previously reported from
Ohio, and doubtless rare in the State.
The usual width given for the spores is 4 to 6 mic., and our plant is
placed here provisionally.
4. Bilimbia melaena (Nyl.) Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. 383-385. 1871.
_Lecidea melaena_ Nyl. Bot. Not. 1853: 182. 1853.
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