ereclus rare subsimplex, solenuiier ramosus et ra-
mulosus, truncus ramique teretiusculi 1. compressi;
f i l a ment o sus procumbeiis 1. pendulus, raro sub-
ereclus, rami ramulique teretes, saepe capillares. Om-
nes ires thalli frondosi series formis intermediis
con junctae.
Sporocarpia, quae loco fructus llchemhus
suut, e parte Interna productiva et externa, illam
recipiente, composita. Pars inienia gongylos sive
sporas gerens, nunc liberas (nudas), nunc In ascis
inclusas, 1. nucleum constitueutibus 1. 'laminam
apertam-, externa concejUaculum exhibens nunc
plus ininusve clausum sive sporangium, nunc
apertum plus mlnusve dilatalum sive Sporota-
viium. Sporocarpia igitur irlpllcls Indolls; Sporocarpia
gymnospora, suhglobosa, stipitata 1. sessi-
11a, strato proligero pulveraceo refería; sporangium
e substantia propria colorata, plerumque nigra, 1.
e substantia thalli formatum, in vertice plus mi-
imsve fatlscens 1. irregulariter rumpens, rare uul-
lum; Sporocarpia angiospora nucleo p ra ed ita ,
thallo plus mlnusve imniersa, cpiaiidqque in stroma
dllatatum slve pulvlnulum colicela, hemlsphae-
rica, subglobosa 1. pyriformla; nucleus proligerus
inollls, subdiaphanus,, ascis composllus discrells,
gelatlnosis, una cum cellulis luiermlxlis sterllibus
floccosis tandem deliquescenllbus, rare firmlorlbus
substantiam ceraceo - carneam slstentlhus; sporangium
nucleum foveiis aut proprium carhonaceum, aul mera-
braiiaceum plerumque ihallodes, in vertice poiy
pertusum 1. collabens, rare irregulariter rumpens, in
aliis sporaugii loco thallus núcleos immediate includens;
Sporocarpia angiospora laminam ge-
r e n tia , sessilla, ihalloque plus minusve ad nata 1.
slromaie elongato slve p o d e t i o— in uominiHs prd-
vluulo suffulla, in generibus panels linearla 1. oblonga,
solenuiier subrotunda, concavluscula, jila na et tandem
convexa 1. suhlnflala ; lamina proligera subcarnea
1. ocracea, colorata, ex ascis sporigeris per-
slstentlbus cellulisque intermlxlis. sterilibus conglutinata;
sporotamium, laminam exclplens, e sub-
stantia propria colorala, 1. ihallodes, 1. nullum.
Sporae mlnutae, elllpsoldeae 1. subglobosae,
conllnuae 1. linels traiisversalibus, plus minusve di-
slinclls nolatae; nuda e, slve sporidia, slne ordine
plerumcjue aggregaiae, hinc inde subcohaerenles,
saturale coloratae — plerumque iiigrae, rarius pur-
pureae 1. cilrlnae; Inclusae, slve sporae sensu
stric tiori, in serles ordlnatae, 1. hlnae, ternae, qua-
teruae — 1. singulae, decolores et pellucidae 1. le—
viter coloratae — griseae, flavescentes, rubescentes.
V K G E T A T I O.
Morphosis. Lichenum ortns 1. eplpoleus 1.
hypopoleus, seu in superficie malricis 1. infra eam
scilicet epldermidem corticls iollorumqne. Tam iu
his, quani in sllrplbus crustaceis saxicolis vis malrl-
cem deconiponeudl ejusque subsfanllae partes slbi
assimilandl hand dubitanda. Lichenum incremen-
lum thalli inter et fructuum expllcatloiiem snmmam
anlllhesin exhibens, seu thalli et sporocarpiorum
cvohuio se invlcem f[uam maxime impedieus, nunc
altera alteram totani excludcus; qua de re tam
thalli quaiii fructns in ilsdem stirpibus varli expli-
calionls gradus, nec non thallus saepe obvlus slne
iruclti et fructus slue ullo tballo.
Thalli incrementum cimi protothalli in'matrice
afilatu progredicns, atomls compositi iiiinutlsi't.
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