The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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232 L1CHENES. [Spliceropkoron.
apotliecia brownish with a glaucous tinge bordered. Turn, and
Borr.—Ach. Syn. p. 281. Turn and Borr. Lich. Brit. p. 100.
—Lichen corallinus, Linn.—E. Bot. t. 1541.
On rocks and stones, chiefly in mountainous countries.
7. I. ocidatum, Ach. Meth {eye like Isidium); thallus indeterminate
filmy very thin continuous white, podetia simple and
branched in a proliferous manner marked with rings as if joint-
ed, of the same colour as the crust, apotliecia disk-like flattish
somewhat flocculose glaucescent bordered. Turn, and Borr.
Lich. Brit. p. 103. Lichen ocukdus, Dicks. Cr. Fasc. 2. p. 17.
t. 6./. 3. E. Bot. t. l83S.—Leca?iora ocidata, Ach. Syn. p. 148.
—j8. podetia densely crowded together their surface very rugged
their apices soredium-like fastigiate forming an areolate surface.
Turn, and Borr. I. c.
Rocks and stones in Scotland, and on mosses and bare soil in the
mountains. (3. forming large patches on rocks, Cunnamara, Mr. Mackay;
and near Bantry, Ireland, Miss Hutchins.
35. Spklerophoron. Ach. Splmerophoron.
Thallus crustaceo-cartilaginous, branched, suffruticose, solid
within. Apothecia (cistulce) subglobose, sessile, terminal on
the branches of the thallus and formed of it, breaking with a
torn border and containing a pulverulent black mass collected
into a ball.—Name; cfpa/pa, a globe or ball, andpogc, bearing,—
the character of its fructification.
1. S. coralloides, Turn, and Borr. (Coral-like Sphcerophoron) ;
thallus cartilaginous shrub-like subcylindrical irregularly branched
brownish, apothecia sphserical in every stage, the border of
the old ones inflexed and ragged. Turn, and Borr. Lich. Brit.
p. 110. a. laxum ; thallus of unequal height and thickness irregularly
divided, lateral branches horizontal tufted half as
thick as the main-stem. Turn, and Borr. I. c— S. coralloides,
Lichen globiferus, Linn.—E. Bot. t. 115.
Ach. Syn. p. 287.
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Dill. Muse. t. 17. 5.
f. (3. c&spitosum ; thallus densely csespitose
fastigiate dichotomous with erecto-patent divisions, lateral
branches none. Turn, and Borr. I. c. p. 111. SphcErophoron
fragile, Ach. Syn. p. 287. E. Bot. t. 2474, (not 114.)—
Lichen fragilis, Linn.
Both varieties on rocks, often among mosses, sometimes on trees, in
the mountainous parts of Britain. «. On the Sussex sand-rocks, Mr.
Borrer.— l quite agree with Messrs. Turner and Borrer in the propriety
of uniting the two species now noticed into one, to which I think
might safely have been joined the following, S. compressum.
2. S. comp>ressum, Ach. (compressed Spharophoroii) ; thallus
cartilaginous shrub-like irregularly branched compressed white,
old apothecia flat with a reflexed border. Turn, and Borr.—
Ach. Syn. p. 287. Turn, and Borr. Lich. Brit. p. 1 15.
Lichen fragilis, Huds.—E. Bot. t. lU.—Dill. Muse. t. 17.
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