Collected near Painesville in Lake County. On pebbles in a moist wood. The type specimen is deposited in the writer's herbarium, and a cotype may be seen in the State Herbarium.
3. Lecidea varians Ach. Syn. Meth. Lich. 38. 1914.
Thallus of very minute, raised or flattened, green-gray to yellow-green granules, these forming a thin but continuous, smooth or granulate-rugose, often chinky crust, usually bordered and often decussated by black lines; apothecia minute, 0.12 to 0.25 mm. in diameter, often clustered or even conglomerate, adnate, from pale yellow to brown and finally black, flat with a thin exciple to convex with covered exciple; hypothecium pale to pale yellow; hymenium pale below, but often yellow or blue-violet above; paraphyses usually coherent, distinct or indistinct; asci clavate; spores oviod-ellipsoid, 7 to 15 mic. long and 5 to 7.5 mic. wide.
Collected in Adams County. On maple bark. Also reported from Franklin County. The plant is so minute and inconspicuous as to be very difficult to detect and is probably distributed widely in the State.
4. Lecidea rupestris (Scop.) Ach. Meth. Lich. 70. 1803. (See [Fig. 10]).
Lichen rupestris Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2. 2: 363, 364. 1772.
Thallus a continuous, moderately thick, smooth or more or less roughened, often chinky to subareolate, ash-gray, yellow-green, or darkening crust; apothecia small to large, 0.4 to 1.3 mm. in diameter, at first immersed but becoming adnate, yellow to yellow or red-brown, flat to strongly convex and the exciple covered; hypothecium pale or pale yellow; hymenium pale; paraphyses coherent, semi-distinct to indistinct; asci clavate; spores ellipsoid, 10 to 15 mic. long and 5 to 7 mic. wide.
Collected in Adams Country. On calcareous rocks. Not previously reported from North America.
5. Lecidea viridescens (Schrad.) Ach. Meth. Lich. 62. 1903.
Lichen viridescens Schrad. Spic. Fl. Germ. 88. 1794.