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Subsect. II. Physcia, Fr. 



25. P. ciliaris, Ach. Thallus cartilagineous, from green becoming 

 glaucous ; lacinise linear, ramose, subascendant, channelled beneath, 

 ciliate with simple fibres ; apothecia subterminal, pedicellate, margin 

 erect, at length lacerate-dentate, fimbriate, or obliterated in foliaceous 

 branches ; disk plane, black, subpruinose. Fr. Lichenogr. p. 77. Bor- 

 rera, Ach. — j3. galactophyUa, Tuckerm. ; more delicate ; the lacinise 

 very white and powdery beneath ; margins of the apothecia at length 

 obliterated in foliaceous expansions ; disk white-pruinose. P. galacto- 

 phylla, Willd. Tierh. ! — y. angustata, Tuckerm.; lacinise extremely 

 narrow, of nearly the same color beneath, subterete at the apices. 

 Borrera angustata., Bory ms. 



Trees, New England (^5), rare. New York, Torrey. Pennsylva- 

 nia (/5), Muhl. ! and southward, where /5 is common. North to Arctic 

 America, Rich. — ;/, Newfoundland, Bory in herb. Berol. ! Rocky 

 Mountains, Herh. Hook. ! P. leucomela, Ach., a species near this, but 

 with narrow, ascendant lacinise, and tomentose marginal fibres, occurs 

 in the Carolinas, Michx. ! and California, Menzies ! and P. erinacea, 

 Fr., with lacerate-laciniate, diffuse lobes, which are ciliate, and beset 

 above with very long whitish fibres, in California, Menzies ! 



26. P. detonsa, Fr. Th. cartilagineous, substellate, naked, glaucous- 

 fuscescent (and fuscous) ; whitish on the under side with black fibres; 

 lacinise narrow, linear, somewhat convex, digitate-multifid, often semi- 

 terete, very densely crowded together and imbricated ; apoth. subses- 

 sile, margin at length crenate, and leafy, disk plane, becoming dark- 

 fuscous. Fr. Syst. Orb. Veg. fide ipsius. P. Novcb AnglicB, Tuckerm. 

 in lilt. olim. P. aquila, Muhl. Catal. 



Rocks and trees. New England. Ohio, Mr. Lea ! Near to P. aqui- 

 la. I have not seen Fries's description. 



27. P. puherulenta, Fr. Th. cartilagineous, substellate, pruinose- 

 cinereous ; black on the under side and hispid-tomentose ; lacinise lin- 

 ear, multifid, approximate ; apoth. sessile, margin tumid, entire, or 

 squamulose-foliose, disk plane, black-fuscous, subpruinose. Fr. Lich- 

 enogr. p. 79. P. pulvendenta, venusta, ^ muscigena, Ach. — ,5. hu- 

 coleiptes, Tuckerm. ; the whole thallus white-farinose-pruinose, lobes 

 radiant, margins interruptedly inflexed and pulverulent ; apoth. sub- 

 sessile, disk depressed, white-pruinose, margin subduplicate, the ex- 

 ternal border foliose or entire. Lichen leucoleiptes, Muhl. in herh. 



