The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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158 LICHEXES. [Endocarpon.
ceous peltate leaf deeply lobed with jagged curled recurved edges
naked on both sides olive-green above tawny beneath, apothecia
immersed nearly globular pale except the slightly prominent
apex. Borr.—Ach. Syn. p. 102. E. miniatum, /3. pusillum,
Wahl. Lapp. p. 462.
Suppl L 2602./. 2.
Verrucaria euploca, Borr. in E. Bot.
On sandstone, exposed to the
of Newcastle, Mr. W. Robertson.
tide by the Tyne, a little to the west
" The deep, iaciniated lobes and the
colour of the underside, distinguish this plant from E. leptophyllum ; yet
so closely is it allied to that species, that the propriety of separating it
may admit of doubt; both are fixed by a central callus and are destitute
of fibres on the underside." Bo?*r.
7. E. soredidtum, (powdery-speckled Endocarpon) ; scales
between tartareous and leafy rather wide mostly scattered
appressed flat irregularly orbicular lobed olive-green, underside
brownish, the edges slightly elevated notched spongy pale grey,
apothecia black immersed except the powdery blackish-grey
apex. Verrucaria sorediata, Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2612./. 2.
Mud walls at Thetford, Norfolk, Mr. D. Turner.
8. E. pidchellum, Borr. {littlefilmy-leaved Endocarpon); scales
leaf-like very thin membranous smooth greenish-grey roundish
with an elevated incurved edge at length crowded waved cut
into rounded lobes and sprinkled with powdery granules, underside
pale brown with woolly fibres, apothecia nearly globular
black immersed the apex only at length exposed. Verrucaria
pulchella, Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2602./ 1.
" Growing on Lichen plumbeus on stems of Heath, on a mountain near
Bantry," Miss Hutchins, who alone has found it in fructification. The
plant itself is of frequent occurrence on mossy trees in Sussex, usually
on Jungermannia dilatata, Mr. Boner.—A very curious species and quite
unlike any other Endocarpon: its thallus has very much the appearance
of some small Thelephora, to which genus Acharius, to whom it was sent,
referred the barren frond.
9. E. Icete-virens, Turn, (bright-green Endocarpon); scales
leaf-like thin smooth grass-green irregularly orbicular with
shallow rounded lobes, underside white appressed and fibrous
in the central part, free elevated and naked at the edges,
apothecia— ? Verrucaria laite-virens, Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl.
t. 2658.
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Endocarpon viride, Ach. Syn. p. 100.
On mosses in the mountains of Scotland, particularly on Sphagnum;
also near Esher, Surrey, and Black Down, Sussex, Mr. Borrer, who finds
it likewise on the wet parts of the sand-rocks in the neighbourhood of
Tunbridge Wells. Ireland, Miss Hatching and Sir T. Gage.—'lhxs has
never been found with apothecia and Acharius was disposed to refer
the barren thallus to his genus Cenomyce } but Mr. Borrer justly remarks
that in the appressed mode of growth and in the manner in
which the scales are attached to the substance on which they are found,
it agrees with other species of Endocarpon (or leafy Verrucaria, Borr.)
and he would assign it a place near V. psoromoides and V.pidchella.
10. E. smardgdulum, Ach. (little Emerald Endocarpon); thai-