Subsp. microphorum A. L. Sm.—Endococcus erraticus subsp.
microplwrus Nyl. in Flora Ixiv. p. 189 (1881) ; Cromb. in. Journ.
Bot. XX. p. 276 (1882).
T. rimosicolum Am. in Flora xliv. p 678 (1861); Mass. in
Grevillea Z. c.—blicrothelia rimosicola Mudd tom. cit. p. 308,
t. 5, fig. 129. Verrucaria advenula Nyl. in Flora xlviii. p. 606
(1865); Carroll in Journ. Bot. v. p. 260 (1867); Cromb. Lich.
Brit. p. 121. V. rimosicola Leight. Lich. PI. p. 4 6 5 ; ed. 3,
p. 496. F. peripherica Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 97 (1836) ?
Leight. Angioc. Lich. pp. 48 & 75, t. 21, fig. 2 & Lich. Fl. p. 449 ;
ed. 3, p. 480 ? Endococcus peripliericus Cromb. Lich. Brit,
p. 123 ?
T. cerinaria Berl. & Yogi, in Sacc. Syll. Add. p. 120 (1886).
Mass. in Grevillea xvii. p. 5.—Sphæria cerinaria Mudd Man.
p. 136 (1861).
Other parasitic species, with colourless simple or septate spores,
now classified as pyrenomycetous fungi, are :—
Didymosphæria epipolytropa Wint. in Rabenhorst’s Krypt.
Flora i. 2, p. 432 (1885).— Thelidium epipohjtropum Mudd Man.
p. 298 (1861). Verrucaria epipolytropa Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 121
(1870); Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 463 ; ed. 3, p. 494.
D. microstictica Wint. in Hedwigia xxv. p. 25 (1886).—
Verrucaria microstictica Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 461 ; ed. 3, p. 493.
Exsicc. Leight. n. 317 (as Endocarpon microsticticum).
D. neottizans A. L. Sm.—Verrucaria neottizans Leight. in
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i. p. 239, t. 32, fig. 19 (1878) & Lich. Fl.
ed. 3, p. 497.
D. gelidaria A. L. Sm.—Sphæria gelidaria Mudd Man. p.
130 (1861). Ticothecium gelidarium Berl. & Yogi, in Sacc. Syll.
Fung. Add. p. 118 (1886) ; Mass. in Greyillea xvii. p. 4.
Physalospora ? psoromoides Wint. in Hedwigia xxv. p. 23
(1886).— Verrucaria psoromoides Borr. in Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2612,
f. 1 (1829). Endocarpon psoromoides Hook, in Sm. Fngl. Fl. v.
p. 157 (1833); Leight. Angioc. Lich. p. 13 ; Mudd Man. p. 267.
Pharcidia? dubiella A. L. Sm.— Verrucaria dubiclla Nyl. in
Flora xlviii. p. 356 (1865); Carroll in Journ. Bot. iv. p. 25
(1866); Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 115; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 446 ;
ed. 3, p. 477. Verrucaria endococcoidea Nyl. in Flora xlviii.
p. 356 (1865) ; Carroll in Journ. Bot. iv. p. 25 (1866) ; Lindsay
in Journ. Micros. Sci. ix. p. 351 (1869); Cromb. Lich. Brit. p.
116 ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 461 ; ed. 3, p. 493.
Ph. ? triphractoides A. L. Sm.—Endococcus triphractoides Nyl.
ex Cromb. in Grevillea iii. p. 24 (1874). Verrucaria triphractoides
Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 497 (1879)
Massaria scoriadea Cooke in Grevillea xvii. p. 93 (1889).—
Sphæria scoriadea Fr. El. Fung. ii. p. 87 (1828). Verrucaria
conferta Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 87 (1836) ; Leight.
Angioc. Lich. p. 39, t. 17, fig. 2 fide Cooke Brit. Fungi ii. p. 873
(1871).
Muellerella polyspora Hepp ex Mueller in Mém. Soc. Phys
Hist. Nat. Genève xvi. p. 420 (1862).—Endococcus haplotellus
Nyl. in Flora 1. p. 180 (1867) ; Carroll in Journ. Bot. vi. p. 101
(1868) (spores simple); Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 122. Verrucaria
haplotella Leight. Lich. PI. p. 463 (1871); eel. 3, p. 495.
The following parasitic species has been classified as a discomy-
oetous fungus :—
Coni5a punctella Arn. in Denkschr. Bot. Ges. Regensb. 1890,
p. 46, previously recorded as Arthonia punctella Nyl. see above,
p. 219.
TH E LOC AR PA C EÆ .
Horizontal thallus wanting. Algal cells Pleurococcus or Proto-
coccus. Perithecia superficial, surrounded by a gonidial sheath,
completely enclosed or opening by a pore ; asci with numerous
simple or septate spores.
A somewhat peculiar and aberrant Order. The single genus
Thelocarpon was included by Nylander in the Fyrenocarpei (Alem.
Soc. Soi. Nat. Cherb. v. p. 135 (1857) ). Later it was transferred to
the fungi by Eehm (Hedwigia xxx. p. 3 (1891)), who regarded it as one
of the Hypocreaceoe. A. Zahlbruckner, who rejects this classification
on account of the*well-defined gonidial structure, has included it in
the Acarosporaceoe, along with other genera distinguished by many-
spored asci (see p. 107).
120. THELOCARPON Nyl. in Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherb.
ii. p. 338 (1854), emend, in Plora Ivi. p. 299 (1873). (PI. 56.)
Thallus forming small scattered or congregate verrucæ, each
one enclosing a perithecium. Perithecia almost globose, completely
enclosed or opening above by a pore ; peritheciai wall
colourless, slightly developed ; paraphyses slender, simple or
branched or wanting ; asci elongate, clavate or ventricose-fusi-
form, many-spored ; spores minute, colourless, simple or pseudo-
septate. Spermogones unknown.
1. Th. Laureri Nyl. in Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherb. iii. p. 191
(1855) & in Plora xlviii. p. 261 (1865).—Thallus confined to minute
scattered or aggregate verrucæ, yellowish-green. Perithecia enclosed
in the verrucæ, soft, minute, globose, citrine- or greenish-
yellow, the ostiole slightly depressed and inconspicuous ; peritheciai
wall colourless ; paraphyses scanty, slender, branched, shorter
than the asci ; asci fiask-shaped, broad in the middle, narrower
upwards, about 0,100 mm. long, 0,012 mm. th ick ; spores minute,