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Family 40. Graphidaceae. Crustaceous lichens with PaUndla 

 or Chroolepus gonidia; apothecia single, margined, oval or 

 roundish. Opegrapha, Graphis, Graphina. (P£. I, i*, 92.) 



Family 41. Chiodectonaceae. Crustaceous lichens with 

 Chroolepus or Phycopcltis gonidia ; apothecia round or elongated, 

 sunken in the stroma. Sarcographa, Chiodccton. (P£. I, i*, 

 102.) 



Family 42. Dirinaceae. Crustaceous lichens with Chroolepus 

 gonidia; apothecia round or elongated, superficial. Dirina. (Pf. 

 I, I*, 105.) 



Family 43. Roccellaceae. Fruticose, erect lichens with Chroo- 

 lepus gonidia; apothecia round or elongated, sunken or superfi- 

 cial. Roccella. (Pf. I, i*, 106.) 



Order Caliciales. True fungi, and lichen-forming fungi; 

 apothecia spheroidal, sessile or stalked, the asci and paraphyses 

 breaking up into a pulverulent mass. 



Family 44. Protocaliciaceae. True fungi ; apothecia sessile or 

 stalked; saprophytes Mycocalicimn. (Syllabus 30.) 



Family 45. Caliciaceae. Crustaceous lichens with Protococ- 

 ciis, Plciirococcus, or Stichococcns gonidia ; apothecia usually 

 long-stalked. Calicium. (Pf. I, i*, 80.) 



Family 46. Cypheliaceae. Crustaceous lichens with Plcuroc- 

 occus, Protococcus, or Chroolepus gonidia; apothecia sessile. Cy- 

 phelium, Tylophoron. (Pf. I, i*, 83.) 



Family 47. Sphaerophoraceae. Foliose or fruticose lichens, 

 with Protococcus gonidia ; apothecia sessile or nearly so. Sphaer- 

 ophorus. (Pf. I, I*, 85.) 



Order Pezizales. True fungi, saprophytic or parasitic, with 

 a branching filamentous mycelium ; apothecia at first usually 

 spherical and closed, later opening, cup-shaped, fleshy, or more 

 or less leathery. 



Family 48. Pyronemataceae. Apothecia fleshy, open from the 

 first, convex. Pyronema. (Pf. 1, i, 178.) 



Family 49. Pezizaceae. Apothecia fleshy, at first spherical and 

 closed, later open, concave, sessile, or stalked. Laehnca, Peziza. 

 (Pf. I, I, 178.) 



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