416 95.Cladon. 4. CHNOTHALAMEZE. Pl. cell.aph. 
On the ground on high hills. 
Podetia rather bald, slightly warty, sometimes scaly. 
VI. 96. HELOPODIUM. Michaux. Helopodium. 
Thallus leaflike; podetia rather pipey, cylindrical, simple ; 
tips split, or radiated, nearly fingerlike, all the rays fertile; 
apothecia round, not bordered, grows convex, headlike, 
beneath hollow, fixed by the edge to the podetia, terminal ; 
proligerous flake forming the upper part of the apothecium, 
rather thick, coloured, inside similar, convex, edge turned 
over and affixed, clothed. beneath with flocklike skin of 
the thallus. 
1. Helopodium delicatum. Delicate helopodium. 
Thallus leaflike; lobes minute, gnawed, jagged, granu- 
lar; podetia bald, granular, pale, divided at the tip; 
branches very short; apoihecia conglomerate, brownish 
black. 
Lichen parasiticus, Hoffm. Lich. 39. 
Lichen delicatus, Ehrh. Crypt. 25, 247. 
Beomyces quercinus, Persoon in Uster Ann, 7,19. 
Beomyces delicatus, char. Meth. 327. 
Cenomyce delicata, 4char. Lich. Univ, 569. 
On the bark and rotten trunks of trees; also on the 
ground. 
2. Helopodium leptophyllum. Scale-leaf helopodium. 
Thallus leaflike; lobes very small, roundish, net cut and 
crenate intermixed ; podetia scarcely branched, rather bald, 
pale greenish; apothecium terminal, usually single, reddish. 
Cenomyee leptophylla, Achar. Lichen, Univ. 563. 
On the ground. 
VII. 97. SCHASMARIA. Acharius. Schasmar. 
Thallus leaflike ; podetia pipey, dilated at top, cupshaped, 
cups open; apothecia round, not bordered, grow convex, 
headlike, inflated or hollow beneath, fixed by the edge to 
the podetia, terminal; proligerous flake forming the top of 
the apothecium, rather thick, coloured, inside similar, con- 
vex turned over the edge and affixed; clothed beneath with 
the flocklike skin of the thalius. 
Schasmaria sparassa. Sprinzkled schasmar. 
Thalius leaflike, small, lobed, crenate; podetia long, ra- 
ther bellied, granulated, warty, scaly, cupbearing, cups 
