The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

LICHENES. 133
II. Thallus subfoliaceous, consisting of scales attached to the sub-
stance on which they grow and more or less combined together.
Apothecia always bordered and discoid, sessile (patellulce).
Fam. VIII. SquamarieIe.
15. Psora. Thallus defined, thick, formed of distinct flattish
or convex tubercles or scales. Apothecia (patellulce) bordered,
plane, at length convex, placed at the side of the scales, the
border of the same colour as the disk.
16. Squamaria. Thallus denned, scaly, spreading, orbicular
and stellate, the scales distinct or adherent, often imbricated,
diverging. Apothecia {patellulce) bordered, the border of the
same substance and colour as the thallus.
17. Placodium. Thallus denned, orbicular and stellated, the
scales adherent, indistinct, subpulverulent, foliaceous in the circumference.
Apothecia {patellulaz) in the centre of the thallus,
bordered, the border of the same colour as the disk.
III. Thallus loose, scarcely attached, except by fibres or radicles
or a small base, to the substances whereon it grows.
A. Upper surface differentfrom the vndcr.
a. Attachment of the thallus diffuse, {notfixed by a central point ).
a. Apothecia scutelliform, discoid, bordered, attached by the centre
(scutellai).
* Thallus more or less membranaceous.
Fam. IX. Parmeliacejk.
18. Parmelia. Thallus foliaceous. membranaceous or coriaceous
spreading, lobed and stellated or laciniated, more or less
fibrous beneath. Apothecia (jscutella) orbicular, beneath formed
of the thalluRj i'wi\ fixed only by a central point, disk bon-
pave, colouredi its border formed by the indexed thallus.
19. StIcta. Thallus foliaceous, coriaceo-cartilaginous,
spreading, lobed. free and downy beneath, with little cavities or
hollow spots (cyphelke) often containing :i powdery substance.
Apothecia (scutella i beneath formed of the thallus to which they
are suppressed and fixed by a central point, the disk coloured,
plan*', surrounded by an elevated border formed of the thallus.
*#• Thallus ( in a moist state) of G gelatinous tUOStatUX .
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20. Collema, Thallus entirely of 6ne substance, gelatinous,
when dry generally becoming hard and cartilaginous, polymorphous,
granulated, foliaceous, lobed, laciniated of branched.
Apothecia (scutellc > orbicular, sessile (randy substipitate,) bar*