46 SCHIZOPELTE. PAKMELIEI. 



Herb. Hook. * * On the earth, fertile, Labrador, Th. Fries 



Scand. 1871. Newfoundland, fertile (the spores exactly as in a), 

 Despreaux. 5, on the earth, fertile, Newfoundland; Des- 

 preaux. White Mountains, Tucker man. c, on Coniferous 



trees, White Mountains, sparingly fertile, Tuckerman Syn. 1848. 

 Newfoundland, Despreaux. Oregon, Washington Territory, and 

 northward, fertile, Prof. Newberry, etc. 



5. A. Loxensis (Fee) Nyl. ; thallus erect or prostrate, terete, 

 slender, very much branched andintertangled, the branches and 

 branchlets divergent, here and there foraminous ; pale- to chest- 

 nut-brown (or now whitened or blackened) ; apothecia lateral, 

 middling-sized; disk dark-chestnut, flat. Spores solitary, muri- 

 form-multilocular, brown, ' ^'^ rnic.' Nyl. Syn. p. 278. 



On the earth, and on trunks, in the high mountains of equi- 

 noctial America. Peak of Orizaba, Mexico, C. Molir. 



VII. SCHIZOPELTE, Th. Fr. 



Apothecia terminal, flabelliform ; the disk coloured dif- 

 ferently from the thallus ; the hypothecium black. Spores 

 plurilocular, brown. Thallus fruticulose, terete, solid; the 



medullary layer loosely cottony. The thin cortical layer 



contrasts with the very marked one of Eoccella / as does 

 the brittleuess of the lichen with the leathery toughness of 

 the latter. 



8. California, Th. Fr.; thallus tufted, stout but brittle, 

 sparingly and irregularly branched, or sub-simple, from smooth 

 becoming rugulose ; ashy-white, dull; apothecia from middling- 

 sized, soon large, fan-shaped; crenate and lobed; disk black, 

 thinly white -pruinose. Spores in eights, oblong and finger- 

 shaped, from 4- more commonly 5-7-locular, blackish-brown, 

 ^Jmic. Flora, 1875, p. 143. 



On the earth, coast of California, Dr. T. H. Fries, I. c. 



Fam. 2. PAEMELIEI. 



Thallus horizontal, foliaceous, expanded (rarely ascend- 

 ant and Everniseform, very rarely Alectoria3form ) cartila- 

 gineous-membranaceous; beneath, normally, fibrillose. 



