Very cool yellow-green crust with tiny flat black mazedia growing on dead juniper, collected a portion with permit for UCD - similar to photos of "Cyphelium" in Sharnoff's book. Abundant spores are brown, two-celled, smooth and measured from 13-18 x 10-11 microns.
This bluish-gray crust was growing on sandy soil in abundance and I collected some thalli with a permit. The areoles are somewhat swollen and irregular and about 1 mm in diameter. The lecanorine apothecia are pale tan and, in some of the larger ones, become irregular thickened. The epihymenium is brown and the spores are hyaline, 8/ascus, simple, thin-walled and about 12 x 5 microns on average. The apothecia is K negative and the brown epihymenium dissolves in K.
On Acarospora sp. ID unconfirmed but seems to fit well with spores 15-17x7-8µ, attenuated at one end.
On mudstone, Gazos Creek Road. Spores massive with thick walls: 64-79 X 34-37 um, walls 5.5-7.5 um thick. All spot tests negative except K on Epihymenium and spores which is K+ purple.