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at length disciform, with a reflexed margin. Fr. Lichenogr. p. 404. 

 Turn. 8f Borr. Licit. Brit. p. 1 15. Icon, E. Bot. t. 1 14. 



Rocks and on the earth in alpine districts. Canada, fertile, Herb. 

 Hook. ! Arctic America ! Rich. 



2. S. ghbiferum (L.), DC. Th. fruticulose, somewhat terete, with 

 erectish, fibriUose-ramulose branches, chestnut ; apoth. globose, with 

 an inflexed margin. DC. Fl. Fr. Lichen glohiferus, L. S. Coralloi- 

 des, Pers. Fr. Lichenogr. p. 405. Turn. ^ Borr. Lich. Brit. p. 110 

 {excl. (S). Icon, E. Bot. t. 115. 



On the earth in alpine and subalpine districts ; and descending, 

 northward. White Mountains, fertile. Eastport, Maine, Russell ! 

 Newfoundland, Pylaie. Arctic America, Hook. ! 



3. S. fragile, Pers. Th. densely csespitose, fruticulose, dichoto- 

 mously branched, somewhat cinereous ; branches terete, fastigiate, na- 

 ked ; apoth. turbinate-globose, with an inflexed margin. Fr. Lichenogr. 

 p. 405. Schar. ! Spicil. p. 7. Icon, E. Bot. t. 2474. 



Alpine rocks. White Mountains, fertile. Northward to Arctic 

 America, Hook. Rarely somewhat compressed. 



Tribe II. ENDOCARPACE^, Fr. 



XXIV. ENDOCARPON, Hedw. 



Apothecia included in the thallus, globose ; a membranaceous, thin, 

 pale thalline exciple inclosing a gelatinous, colored, deliquescent nu- 

 cleus ; ostioles somewhat prominent. Thallus horizontal, cartilagine- 

 ous-foliaceous, subpeltate. 



1. E. minialum, Ach. Thallus cartilagineous-coriaceous, rigid, pale- 

 yellowish-fulvescent, becoming cinerascent and glaucous-pruinose ; on 

 the under side naked, at length somewhat rugose, fulvescent, at length 

 black ; ostioles somewhat prominent, fuscous-nigrescent. Fr. Lichen- 

 ogr. p. 'iOS. — /?. complicatum, Schter. ; ca:spitose-polyphyllous ; lobes 

 ascendant, imbricate and complicate, cinereous ; on the under side 

 dark-fuscous. Schar. ! Spicil. p. 59. Fr. I. c. 



Rocks. New York, Halsey. Pennsylvania, Muhl. Arctic Ameri- 

 ca, iitc/j. — (S, near water, New England. New York, ifa/sey. Fries, 



