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of the apothecia with an elevated border : there is no second 
perithecium passing beneath the nucleus, which is gelati- 
nous, pale, oblong-spheroid, studded with opaque points 
among which oblong bodies occur. Probably the minute- 
ness of the apothecia have caused this very common Lichen - 
to remain unrecognised. 
Enpocarpon, Hedwig. 
1. E. Wightü, Tayl.; thallo crustaceo, tenui, contiguo, ci- 
nereo-virescenti, margine depresso, albidiori ; ostiolis spar- 
sis, depressis, thalli albis, perithecii nigris marginatis, 
nucleo-hyalino, thecis nigris. 
Has. Madras, Dr. Wight, Hook. herb. — Thallus spreading 
as a continuous, uneven crust, two or three inches in 
diameter; moistened, the surface presents minute, thickly 
set, oblong, green granules; when the thallus is broken 
and beneath the apothecia minute blood-red particles are ob- 
 Servable. The nucleus issues as a narrow scariose neck 
out of the black marginate pore, which again is surrounded - 
by a circular ring of white thallus. This species has some — — 
resemblance to V. epigeia, Ach., but has neither the e n. 
fibrose thallus, or prominent apothecia of the latter. a 
2. E. peltatum, Tayl.; thallo corneo, foliaceo, orbiculari, pel. l- ee 
tato, flavescenti-cinereo, bibulo, areolato, bro- — 
tundis, madore minute rugosis, contiguis, subtus atro- 
lanuginoso, margine recurvo, integro demum diffracto ; 
. apotheciis sparsis, nucleo í immerso lamina nigra emergente 
Wee co 
Has. Near Zifariip Biss Cape of God Hope ; E ehe; 
. Hook. herb. — Thallus i in renidet cae more e than 
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