BC, Wells Gray, 20080129
WGWI east, lichens. 

Late afternoon soon over Edgewood Blue. 

Trails, mostly "ridges".

Cladonia gracilis turninata (weathered conifer stump) [voucher] 

Cladonia gracilis turbinata (rotten mossy aspen? log) [voucher] 

Cladonia sulphurina (rotten mossy aspen? log) [voucher] 

Letharia vulpina (aspen trunk) 

Usnea cornuta? (aspen trunk) 

Spores of various ages, at 1000x. Two spores, at 1000x. Spore, at 1000x. Spores, at 1000x. Several spores in ascus, at 1000x. Apo section, at 400x. Apo section, at 400x. Thallus, at 30x. Thallus, at 10x. 

Buellia penichra? [] [voucher] 

 GEN crust lichen, on picea trunk bark
 THAL immersed
 ALG green
 APO black, lecideine, mostly v convex but some concave with prom marg, marg black like disk, epruinose, epi brown, hymen and subhymen hyaline, hypothecium dk brown to black, tiny oil droplets in hymen, para unbr, all K-
 SPORE 8 per ascus, muriform, brown
Curtis says this is one of his new species.  Certainly, Lichens does not cover the Buellia group practically at all (Brodo calls this Diplotomma due to muriform spores).

Melanelia subaurifera (birch trunk) [] [voucher] 

Parmelia sulcata (birch trunk) [] [voucher] 

Pyrrhospora? (picea twig) 

Bryoria capillaris (picea twig) [] [voucher] 

 THAL pale brown, no soredia, flexible, K+y bright persist

Hypogymnia imshaugii (picea twig) [] [voucher] 

Hypogymnia occidentalis (picea twig) [voucher] 

Hypogymnia metaphysodes-group (picea twig) [voucher] 

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