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Tribus m. COCCOCAHPIE/E. 



*COCGOCARPIA Pers, emend. 



Apothecia scutitbrmia , plano-convexa (interdum symphy- 

 carpea) idiogena, nempe tliallo liaud marginata nec excipulo 

 instrucla. Lamina proligera (nucleus evolutus) strato medullari 

 primitus inclusa, demum erumitens, exascis clavatis sporas 4-8 

 glauco-virides, elhptico-cymt)itbrmes, in C. mobjbdcea centimill. 

 longas, biloculares seu binucleolatasfoventibusparaphysibusque 

 crassis geniculato-articulatis constans. Thallus membranaceus, 

 subgelatinosus, orbicularis, e s^juamis seu tbUolis tlabelliformi- 

 bus centro concretis aut linearibus multilidis radiantibus com- 

 positus , supra interdum coucentrice undulatus, plumbeus aut 

 viridis, subtus ad lixuras dcnsas tomentosus. — Montag. , 

 Cent. II, Jnn. sc. nat., !2, XVI, p. 122. — Massalongo, 

 Memorie lichenografiche., p. 54. 



Syn. Lecidea Hook., in Humb. ctBoNPL., Syn. Plant. Orh. 

 novi, p. 15. — EscHw., in Mart., Fl. Bras., l, p. 258. — 

 Circinaria Fee, Ecorc. offic.., \\. 128. 



Obs. In libello insigni cui titulus est : Memoire pour servir 

 d 1'histoire organographiqne et phijsiotogique des Lichens , 

 celeberrimus Tulasne , (luiitus innixus rationibus me latet, 

 adductus est, ut apothecia nuda hujus generis, hoc est excipulo 

 quocumque destituta pularet lichenem aulonomuui, in thallo 

 parasitantcm ct prorsus eodcui alieniuii. ratebor ingcjuie mc 

 iion posse [tedibus ire in sentcutiam illam doch colleg*. Si res 

 enim ita se habet, quid de thallo ipso, t|uoad formam satis 

 diverso, senhendum est? Omnes lichenographi , Persoonio 

 prseeunte, Churchill Babington, Dehse, Eschweiler, Pee, de 

 Flofow, sir W. Hooker, Massalongo, DeNotaris, Nylander, etc, 

 una menle consentiunt ad illum [tro licliene normali et sui 

 generis habendum, etsi in eo discrc[>anl, quo<l ejusdem species 



