158 LICHEXES. 



[Endocarpon. 



ceous peltate leaf deeply lobed with jagged curled recurved edges 

 naked on both sides olive-green above tawny beneath, apothe- 

 cia immersed nearly globular pale except the slightly prominent 

 apex. Borr. — Ach. Syn. p. 102. — E. miniatum, /3. pusillum, 

 Wahl. Lapp. p. 462. — Verrucaria euploca, Borr. in E. Bot. 

 Suppl L 2602./. 2. 



On sandstone, exposed to the tide by the Tyne, a little to the west 

 of Newcastle, Mr. W. Robertson. " The deep, iaciniated lobes and the 

 colour of the underside, distinguish this plant from E. leptophyllum ; yet 

 so closely is it allied to that species, that the propriety of separating it 

 may admit of doubt; both are fixed by a central callus and are destitute 

 of fibres on the underside." Bo?*r. 



7. E. soredidtum, (powdery -speckled Endocarpon) ; scales 

 between tartareous and leafy rather wide mostly scattered 

 appressed flat irregularly orbicular lobed olive-green, underside 

 brownish, the edges slightly elevated notched spongy pale grey, 

 apothecia black immersed except the powdery blackish-grey 

 apex. Verrucaria sorediata, Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2612./. 2. 



Mud walls at Thetford, Norfolk, Mr. D. Turner. 



8. E. pidchellum, Borr. {little filmy -leaved Endocarpon); scales 

 leaf-like very thin membranous smooth greenish-grey roundish 

 with an elevated incurved edge at length crowded waved cut 

 into rounded lobes and sprinkled with powdery granules, under- 

 side pale brown with woolly fibres, apothecia nearly globular 

 black immersed the apex only at length exposed. Verrucaria 

 pulchella, Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2602. / 1. 



" Growing on Lichen plumbeus on stems of Heath, on a mountain near 

 Bantry," Miss Hutchins, who alone has found it in fructification. The 

 plant itself is of frequent occurrence on mossy trees in Sussex, usually 

 on Jungermannia dilatata, Mr. Boner. — A very curious species and quite 

 unlike any other Endocarpon: its thallus has very much the appearance 

 of some small Thelephora, to which genus Acharius, to whom it was sent, 

 referred the barren frond. 



9. E. Icete-virens, Turn, (bright-green Endocarpon); scales 

 leaf-like thin smooth grass-green irregularly orbicular with 

 shallow rounded lobes, underside white appressed and fib- 

 rous in the central part, free elevated and naked at the edges, 

 apothecia — ? Verrucaria laite-virens, Borr. in E. Bot. Suppl. 

 t. 2658. — Endocarpon viride, Ach. Syn. p. 100. 



On mosses in the mountains of Scotland, particularly on Sphagnum; 

 also near Esher, Surrey, and Black Down, Sussex, Mr. Borrer, who finds 

 it likewise on the wet parts of the sand-rocks in the neighbourhood of 

 Tunbridge Wells. Ireland, Miss Hatching and Sir T. Gage.—'lhxs has 

 never been found with apothecia and Acharius was disposed to refer 

 the barren thallus to his genus Cenomyce } but Mr. Borrer justly re- 

 marks that in the appressed mode of growth and in the manner in 

 which the scales are attached to the substance on which they are found, 

 it agrees with other species of Endocarpon (or leafy Verrucaria, Borr.) 

 and he would assign it a place near V. psoromoides and V.pidchella. 



10. E. smardgdulum, Ach. (little Emerald Endocarpon); thai- 



