Download PDF

50G 131. Endocai-p. 5. IDIOTHALAME^. PL cell. apL
5. Endocarpon Hedwigii. Hedwig^s hidden-fruit.
Thallus nearly cartilaginous, roundish, cornered and
lobed, olive-colour; underneath at the edge paler, grow
blackish, fibrilled; mouths I'ather prominent, blackish
brown.
Lichen trapeziformis, Dickson Crypt. 2,22; Engl. Bot. 595.
Lichen Endocarpon, Withering Bot. Arr. 4,52.
Endocarpon bepaticum a and jS, Achar. Lich. 298, 299.
Endocarpon pusillum, Hedwig. Crypt. 2, 56.
Endocarpon Hedwigii, Achar. Meth. 125; Lich. 298.
On barren heaths and the sides of mountains.
Thallus scarcely discernible except in wet weather, various
in colour, both above and beneath, paler or darker,
olive, rust-colour, brownish, brown, and blackish.
6. Endocarpon lachneum. JVoolly hidden-fruit.
Thallus nearly cartilaginous, lobed ; lobes aggregated,
rather tiledlike; edge raised, turned over, wavy; underneath
woolly, black.
Lichen lachneus, Achar. Prod. 140; Engl. Bot. 1698.
Endocarpon lachneum, Achar. Meth. 127 ; Lich. 299.
On downs and rocks.
7. Endocarpon pallidum. Pale hiddenfruit.
Thallus leatherlike, membranaceous, leafiike, pale, greenish,
crenately lobed, grows irregularly jagged; jag^ bent,
rather tiledlike; external jags underneath paler, naked;
mouths hemispherical, pale, with a black dot.
Endocarpon pallidum, ^cArtr.ifcA. 301 ; Engl. Bot. 2b^\.
Endocarpon muscorum, Achar. Li h- 300,
Upon mosses, and rocks barely covered with earth.
8. Endocarpon parasiticum. Parasitic hidden-fruit
Thallus crustlike, leatherlike, coppery, underneath black,
fibrilled ; lobes roundish, lobed, flat, smooth, afterwards
convex, wrinkled, cracked, broken ; mouths depressed,
slightly bordered, at length convex.
Lichen parasiticus, Engi.Bo^ 1866.
Endocarpon parasiticum, Achar. Syn. 100.
Parasitic on parmelia omphalodes.
9. Ejidocarpon viride. Green hidden-fruit.
Thallus thin, membranaceous, leaflike, roundish, slightly
concave ;- edge not in the least cut, light greenish, underneath
whitish, naked.