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Phaeographis inusta, one of the "dark-spored script lichens", on the bark of a hardwood tree, western New Jersey. The dark lines are fruiting bodies of the lichen fungus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photograph copyright Stephen/Sylvia Sharnoff