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PLANT STRUCTURES 



bles an incrustation upon its substratum of rock, soil, etc. ; 

 (2) Foliose Lichens, with flattened, leaf -like, lobed bodies, at- 



Fig. 74. Much enlarged section of a portion of the apothecium of Anaptychia, show- 

 ing the fungus mycelium, (m), which is massed above (y), just beneath the layer of 

 asci (1, 2 f S, It), in which spores in various stages of development are shown.— 

 After Sachs. 



tached only at the middle or irregularly to the substratum ; 

 (3) Fruticose Lichens, with filamentous bodies branching 

 like shrubs, either erect, pendulous, or prostrate. 



