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Plcell.aph. 4.CENOTHALAME7E.102.Nephrom. 427
2. Nephroma parile* Equal kidney-moss.
Thallus livid, brown; beneath naked, rather wrinkled,
blackish; fertile lobes short; flake of the apothecia
brownish.
Lichen parilis, Acliar. Prod. 164.
Peltidca parilis, Achar. Meth. 289.
Nephroma parilis, Achar. Lich. Univ, 522.
Upon mosses, on hills.
XIII. 103. PELTIDEA. Acharius. Shield-moss.
Thallus leaflike, leatherlike, expanded, nearly adnate,
lobed; underneath woolly, veiny; apothecia formed underneath
from the ascending, lengthened, proper lobes of the
thallus; prolicierous flake round, adnate throughout, rather
oblique to the thallus; the inward segment slightly elevated,
coloured, flat, inside cellular, streaked ; thalloid lor"
der thin, elevated, close all round.
1. Peltidea venosa. Veiny shield-moss.
Thallus gray, green, underneath veined ; veins branched,
running about, grey brown ; lobes rounded, very slightly
cut; apothecia marginal, flat, round, tumid, dark brown,
rather crenate.
Lichen venosus, Lin. S. F. 1615 ; Engl. Bot. 887.
Peltigera venosa, Hoffm. Germ. 107.
Peltidea venosa, Achar. Meth. 282 ; Lich. 514.
On the ground, on the edges of paths and ditches.
2. Peltidea scutata.
Buckler shield-moss.
Thallus greyish, underneath whiter, veinless ; lohes
rounded; sinuately cut, crenate, crisp: fertile lobes very
&\iori\ apothecia round, ascending, rather flattish, brown,
scarcely cut.
Lichen scufatus, Dickson Crypt. Bot, 3,18.
Peltidea scutata, Achar. Meth. 285; Lich. 515.
On the mossy trunks of trees.
3. Peltidea horizontalis. Horizo?dal shield-moss.
Thallus sea-green, brown, and greenish, bald ; underneath
very white, networked with black veins ; fertile lobes
very short ; apothecia terminal, flat, horizontal, transversely
oblong, bay-colour, not in the least cut.
Lichenoides subfuscum, peltis horizontalibus, Dillen Muse. 205.
Engl Bot. 888.
Lichen horizontalis, im. Mant. 1, 132 ;
Pelligera horizontalis, Iloff. Germ. 107.
Peltidea horizontalis, Achar. Meth. 288; Lich. 515. j
Among mosses on stones in mountain woods.