DR. LA.TJDEK LIKDSAT ON ABTHONIA MELASPERMELLA, 275 



II. Algce. 



19. Cilicia, Fr. 



20. Chrysothrix, MontJ^ 



III. Fu/ngi. 



21. Patellaria, Fr. 



It haa therefore already absorbed species of genera and families 

 the most diverse ; and it seems, indeed, too much a mere con- 

 venient receptacle for doubtful species or forms, of whose true 

 character and aflGoaities we have yet insufficient knowledge. 



There has ever been a confusion almost inextricable between 

 the Fungi and LicTiens in regard to certain of the more minute, or 

 lower, forms of both. On the one hand, many formerly considered 

 Fungi are now regarded as Lichens ; and on the other, many Id- 

 ckens as Fungi, 



confounded with Lichens 



mg genera : 



ram. ASCOMTCETES. 

 Order 1. SpHiEEiACEr. 



*1. Sphaeria, Hall. I 3. Dichaena, Fr. 



2. Dothidea, Fr. 14. Nectria, Fr. 



Order 2. Helyellacei. 



*1. Patellaria, Fr. 



2. Peziza, Linky including the subgenus Patellea. 



3. Stictis, Pers. 



Order 3. Phacidiacei. 



1. Phaeidium, Fr.f 



2. Ilysterium, Tode. 



Of these by far the most important are Patellaria and Sph^sria. 

 The Lichens mistaken for Fungi belong mostly to the following 



genera : 



Ye bbuc aeiace^ 



1. Verrucaria, Pers. 



2. Microthelia, Kbr. 



3. Endococcus, Nyh 



4. Thelenella, Ngl. 



5. Thelidium, Massal 



6. Tichothecium, Fto. 



7. Limboria, Ach. 



Chrysothrix^ Montagne [" Diagnoses Phycologicse," Ann. des Sc. Nat., 3rd 

 •er. Botany, 1852, p. 317] is a new genus of Collemacea. Stizenberger (p. 141) 

 places it in the Ccenogoniea ; Massalongo (Att. 1st. 



ParrneliacecB : P. Xvlanrlt^r ftmoTior the Arthonux. 



ser. 



Montague's genus Cilicia 



Chrysothrix. 



t Compare Eugene Coemans, * Notice sur quelques Cryptogames 

 ^ la Flore Beige,' p. 7 : Bnisst4s, 1858. 



