290 POPULAR HISTORY OP LICHENS. 



appear as small, black, superficial perithecia, pierced by a 

 minute pore. The spermatia are linear, of great tenuity, 

 straight, and very numerous. This species is much rarer 

 in fructification than the preceding. 



Nat. Ord. XIV. END 0 CARFA CF2E, Fries. 



Fam. Char. Thallus foliaceous or crustaceous. Apothecia im- 

 mersed, closed, having a regular, prominent ostiole. Fxciple 

 whollv thalline, sometimes modified ; thalamium deliquescent. 



Genus L ENDOCARPON, Hedw. 



Gen. Char. Thallus foliaceous or scaly, cartilaginous, subpel- 

 tate, sometimes adherent by a central point and umbilicate, or 

 appressed and closely adnate by delicate fibres. Apothecia glo- 

 bular ; exciple membranaceous, thin, pale ; thalamium flesh -red, 

 becoming black. (Name from evSov, within, and Kapiros, fruit, 

 in allusion to the immersed apothecia.) 



* Thallus foliaceous, suhpeltate. 

 1. Endocarpon miniatum (minium, red lead or vermilion) . 

 Thallus coriaceous, umbilicate, lobed, or csespitose and im- 

 bricate-lobate, when dry grey-pruinose above, becoming 

 brown, — below smooth, tawny, or blackish. Ostioles mi- 



