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498 129.Lithocia. 5.IDI0THALAME^. Pl.celLaph.
r 5. Lithocia maura. Blackmoor stone-moss.
Crust tartarlike, thin, smooth, very much cracked, verydeep
black ; apothecia minute, nearly globular, immersed
tip umbilicated, prominent ; m/c/ez« blackish.
. Crust
Verrucaria maura, Achar. Meth, Suppl. 19; Lich, 291.
Lichen maurus, Engl. Bot. 2456.
On rocks and stones near the seaside.
6. Lithocia striatula. Fiiie-streaked stone-moss.
figured, shrublike, bordered with greenish-black,
beds rather separate, branched, radiating; apothecia conoid,
afterwards slightly concave above, bordered ; nucleus dot-
like, transparent.
Verrucaria striatula, Achar. Meth, Suppl. 21 ; Lich. 293.
)3. acroteUa Beds of the crust dispersed, irregular,
blackish-brown.
Verrucaria acrotella, Achar. Meth. 123.
Lichen acrotellus, £n^/. Bof. 1712.
Verrucaria striatula acrotella, Achar. Lich, 293.
On flint-stones.
IX. 130. INODERMA. Acharius. Toiu-moss.
Thallus soft, towlike, rather spongy, or thin cobwebby,
adnate; apothecia containing a nearly globular or hemispherical
thalamium, innate at bottom in the thallus; perithecium
double, the external rather cartilaginous, thick,
black, halved above, with a nipple or mouth ; the interior
very thin, membranaceous; including all around a nearly
globular, vesicular, cellular nucleus.
1. Inoderma epigea. Above-ground toiu-moss..
Thallus thin, nearly fibrous, uneven, pale yellowish
apothecia very small, globular, sunk ; mouth prominent,
inside black.
Sphairia epigea, Persoon Syn. Fung. App. 27.
Verrucaria epigea, Achar. Meth. 123 ; Lich. 295,
On muddy ground.
2. Inoderma lyssacea. Byssus tow-moss.
Thallus rather leprous, cobwebby, dirty white ; apothecia.
very small, nearly globular, half-sunk, pierced, inside
black.
Sphffiria byssacea, Persoon Syn. Fung. App. 32.
Verrucaria byssacea, Achar. Meth. 116; Lich, 294.
On the trunks of trees.