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Beomj/ces.] L1CHENES. 137
CRYPTOGAMIA LICHENES.
I. Thallus adherent, crustaccous, amorphous.
A. Apothccia more or less slipitate.
a. Apothccia rounded, fleshy, with the stipes solid (mycince).
Pseudo-Fungi.
FAM. I. B/EOMYCE.E.
1. Beomyces. Pers.
Thallus crustaceous, spreading, adnate.
Apothccia (mycina)
orbicular, convex, capituliform, not bordered, sessile upon a
solid stipes Name ; (3*«05, small, and pi/x«, a Fungus or Mushroom.
This genus approaches the Fungi in many respects, even
in its odour. The podetia arc solid, fleshy and of the same tex-
ture as the apothecia; hence, and on account of the different
nature of the thallus, the species are widely separated from the
Cenomycece, near which they were arranged by Acharius,
1. B. roseus, Pers. (rose-coloured Mushroom BcBOm\
crn>t uniform granulated greenish- white, stipes very short
cylindrical, apothecia siihglohose wrinkled pale flesh-coloured.
Ach. Syn.p. 280. Hook. Scot. P. II. p. 65. Scheer. Uch. Hely.
p. Hi. //. 31. Lichen Bceomyces, Linn.— E. Pot. t. 374. Dili.
Musc.t 14./. 1.
Heaths, upon the ground, not unfrequent sir .las. K. Smith compares
the fructification of this to some minute UelveUa-, but the presence oi
a crust confirms the propriety of placing it among the Lichens.
2. IS. rufus, Wahl. (brown Mushroom Bceomyces)} crust uniform
granulated and pulverulent greenish-white, Btipes short
somewhat compressed, apothecia flattish at tin- top sometimes
conglomerate reddish-brown. Ach. Syn. />. l,s . Book. Scot.
l\ //./>. 65. Bceomyces byssoides, Scheer. Lich. Helv.p. 17. //. S2.
—Lichen rufus, Hud*. Angl. p. 527.— A. byssoides, Linn,—-DM.
MuSC. t. 14 I- 3, and 5.
!;,., k8| ( ,i,i wails and, less frequently, en the ground in sand} soil.—
Crust generallj thinner and more pulverulent than the preced
more Blender; apothecia smaller, more regularly orbicular, less wrinkled
ami f a dull reddirou n colour.
:;. B. placoph$Uus, Wahl. (thick-erusted I: ••
crust
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bicular wrinkled and plicate subimbricated whitish and glauces-
cent formed in the circumference into rounded lobes and ere-
nated, stipes ;i little swollen compressed, apothecia slightl)
convex simple red-brown, Ach. Syn, p. 281. Meth. I.»h. r .
t. 7. /; i.