. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. Fig. Z\i.—ColUma pulpnsum, slightly magnified, showing the apothecia.—After Sachs. Family 7. Lecanorei. Plaeodium, Leeanora, Binodina, Pertusa- ria (Fig. 315, G), Gonoirema, Dirina, Oyalecta, Urceolaria, Thelotrema, Oyrostomum. Leeanora tarta- rea iurnishjs a. dye, and L. esculenta, of Asia Minor, sup- plies a valuable food; it is sometimes " carried up by whirlwinds and deposited affei traversing the air for many miles, giving rise to stories of the miraculous descent of food. A few years since, in a time of great scarcity at Erzeroum, a sh
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. Fig. Z\i.—ColUma pulpnsum, slightly magnified, showing the apothecia.—After Sachs. Family 7. Lecanorei. Plaeodium, Leeanora, Binodina, Pertusa- ria (Fig. 315, G), Gonoirema, Dirina, Oyalecta, Urceolaria, Thelotrema, Oyrostomum. Leeanora tarta- rea iurnishjs a. dye, and L. esculenta, of Asia Minor, sup- plies a valuable food; it is sometimes " carried up by whirlwinds and deposited affei traversing the air for many miles, giving rise to stories of the miraculous descent of food. A few years since, in a time of great scarcity at Erzeroum, a shower of these lichens fell most opportunely, to the great . relief of the ;* Tribe II. Lecidbacei. Apothecia rounded, open, pa- telliform, contained in a proper exciple. Family 1. Cladoniei. 8te- reoeaulon, Piloplwrus, Gladonia. Gladonia rangiferina is the " Reindeer moss " of the Arctic regions ; it furnishes a valuable food to the Fig. HIS.—A, Qraphis elegams on a piece of a twig of the holly; B, the same slightly mag- niflecf; (7, Perlumria Wulfevi, slightly mag- nified, on a piece of old wood.—After Sachs. * Berkeley: " Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany," p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt
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