od, 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
green-gray, and darkening, or even yellow-green, usually bordered wholly
or in part by a black margin; apothecia small to large, 0.4 to 1.3 mm.
in diameter, black, adnate to sessile, or rarely more or less immersed,
flat with a prominent, concolorous, sometimes flexuous exciple, or
sometimes becoming convex, with the exciple often covered (Fig. 11);
hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale below and pale brown above;
paraphyses distinct (Fig. 12), but sometimes loosely coherent; asci
clavate (Fig. 13), or rarely inflated clavate; spores oblong to
ellipsoid, 10 to 18 mic. long and 5 to 9 mic. wide, rarely 3-celled
(Fig. 13).

Collected in Fairfield, Lake, Adams, Highland, Hocking, and Butler
counties. Also examined from Morgan, Madison, and Muskingum counties. On
bark. Generally distributed in Ohio.

3. Buellia turgescentoides sp. nov.

Thallus a thick, continuous or scattered, flat or verrucose, areolate or
subareolate, dull olive-brown, and darkening crust, covering small areas
or spreading widely over the substratum, the marginal areoles sometimes
lobulate; apothecia minute to small, 0.2 to 0.5 mm. in diameter,
immersed to adnate, scattered or clustered, black, flat with the thin
concolorous