Pl.cell.aph.. 5. IDIOTHALAME, AST 
E. Thallus crustlike; apothecia flat, bordered, linear. 
Opegraphide. . 
Peritthectum: simple. 05. 0).)s 06/06 «0's GRAPHIS. 132, 
Apothecia hollow, grooved or flat ; : 
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Apothecia slitlike; edges swollen ; 
(OSA ACERT OL) Se ere ee sysveiia *ue),e4sis ones EL STERENAY 154: 
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A. Ruizomorruip®. Thallus leatherlike, shrubby; 
apothecia tubercular; perithecium 0. 
| (et 2 SPEHL-EROPHORON. Persoon. Ball-moss. 
Thallus crustlike, cartilaginous, branched, shrublike; 
inside towlike, rather solid; apothecia nearly giobular, 
sessile, terminating the branches of the thallus, and formed 
of it, which tearing open shows a black, powdery, globular 
mass included with it. 
1. Spherophoron coralloides. Coral-like ball-mass. 
Thallus pale chestnut, scarcely divided ; branches lateral, 
long, weak, divaricated, forked, pointed, fibrilled ; apothecia 
nearly globular, smooth. 
Lichenoides non tubulosum, ramulis scufellis nigris terminatis, Dillen in 
Rati Syn. 66, 13. 
Lichen globiferus, Lin. Mant. 133. . 
Lichen globosus, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1, 460. 
Lichen fragilis 8, Huds. Fl. Angl. 558. 
_ Stereocaulon globiferum, Hoffin. Germ. 151. 
Sphzrophoron coralloides, Achar. Meth. 134; Lich. 585. 
On mountain-heaths, and on the roots of fir-trees. 
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2. Sperophoron fragile. Brittle ball-moss. 
Thallus greyish, branched ; branches forked, short, 
crowded, eventopped, naked, cylindrical, bluntish; apo- 
thecia globular topshape, rather warty. 
Lichen fragilis, Lin. S. P. 1621. 
Lichen cxzspitosum, Roth Tent. 
Coralloides fragile, Hoffm. Lich. 2, 34. 
Stereocaulon fragile, Hoffm. Germ, 131. 
Sphzrophoron fragile, Achar. Meth. 135; Lich. 585; Engl. Bot, 2474. 
On stones, and mountains among mosses. v4 
3. Spherophoron compressum. Compressed ball-moss. 
Thallus whitish, branched; branches compressed, twig- 
ged, rather fibrilled, naked; apothecia nearly globular, 
rather depressed above, smooth. 
