Pl, cell.aph. 4. CENOTHALAMEZE, 102. Nephrom. 427 
2. Nephroma parile, Equal kidney-moss. 
Thallus livid, brown; beneath naked, rather wrinkled, 
blackish; fertile lobes short; flake of the apothecia 
brownish. 
Lichen parilis, Achar. Prod. 164. 
Peltidea parilis, .dchar. Meth. 289. 
Nephroma parilis, Achar, Lich, Univ, 522, 
Upon mosses, on hills. 
XIII. 103. PELTIDEA. Acharius. Shield-moss. 
Thallus \eaflike, leatherlike, expanded, nearly adnate, 
lobed; underneath woolly, veiny ; apothecia formed under- 
neath from the ascending, lengthened, proper lobes of the 
thallus; proligerous flake round, adnate throughout, rather 
oblique to the thallus; the inward segment slightly elc- 
vated, coloured, flat, inside cellular, streaked; thalloid bor- 
der thin, elevated, close all round. 
1. Peltidea venosa. Veiny shield-moss. 
Thallus gray, green, underneath veined ; veins branched, 
running about, grey brown; lobes rounded, very slightly 
cut; apothecia marginal, flat, round, tumid, dark brown, 
rather crenate. 
Lichen venosus, Lin. S. V. 16153 Engl. Bot. 887. 
Peltigera venosa, Hojffm. Germ. 107. 
Peltidea venosa, Achar. Meth. 2823 Lich. 514. 
On the ground, on the edges of paths and ditches. 
2. Peltidea scutata. _ Buckler shield-moss. 
Thallus greyish, underneath whiter, veinless ; lobes 
rounded; sinuately cut, crenate, crisp; fertile lobes very 
short; apothecia round, ascending, rather flattish, brown, 
scarcely cut. Yoh sh 
Lichen scutatus, Dickson Crypt. Bot. 3, 18. 
Peltidea scutata, Achar. Meth. 285; Lich, 515. . 
On the mossy trunks of trees. 
3. Peltidea horizontalis. _.» Horizontal shield-moss. 
Thallus sea-green,- brown, and greenish, bald; under- 
neath very white, networked with black veins; fertile lobes 
very short; apothecia terminal, flat, horizontal, transversely 
oblong, bay-colour, not in the least cut. 
Lichenoides subfuscum, peltis horizontalibus, Dillen Musc..205. 
Lichen horizontalis, Lin. Mant. 1,132; Engl Bot. 888. 
Peltigera horizontalis, Hoff. Germ. 107. 
Pelhtidea horizontalis, Achar. Meth. 288; Lich. 515. 
Among mosses on stones in mountain woods. 
