BC, Wells Gray, 20080124
WGWI west, lichens. 

Spores, at 1000x. Apothecial section, at 400x. Close-up of edge of thallus, at 30x. Close-up of apothecia, at 30x. 

Lecania dubitans [] [voucher] 

 GEN all over aspen bark
 THAL white powdery, margin just sort of peters out, K-
 ALG green
 APO little black buttons, convex, nonpruinose, marg essentially disappears, epi dk brown, hymen and hypothecium and subhymen hyaline, thin cortex, algae in exciple (or exciple nonexistent and algae in amphithecium), all K-, hymen strongly I+, ascus bacidia-type? 
 SPORE 8 per ascus, ellip, often bent, hyaline, septate, smooth, often sl constricted, even walls, 12.5-14.5x4.5-5.0um

Peltigera canina (on moss on overhang of boulder) [voucher] 

Usnea scabrata (on birch limb) [] 

Vulpicida canadensis (on burned? young pine) [voucher] 

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