The paraphyses are commonly distinct in young apothecia, but in mature apothecia they are usually more or less gelatinized and coherent.
A good deal of discrimination must be used in the selection of specimens for removal, which, in all cases where such can be obtained, ought to be fertile, with both apothecia and spermagones fully developed.
Suffice it at present to say that sections must be made of the thallus to ascertain the character of its different layers, as also sections of the apothecia and spermagones to ascertain the nature of the spores and spermatia.
The spores are ejected from the apothecia and perithecia as in the fungi by forcible ejaculation from the asci.
It is here worthy of notice that the apothecia of several calcicolous lichens (e.
In colour the apotheciaare extremely variable, and it is but rarely that they are the same colour as the thallus (e.
The colors of the Thallus and apothecia of Lichens--their causes, and the circumstances which modify and alter them.
The Lichens are divided into two Orders, according to whether the apothecia are open before the spores are ripe, as in the species noticed above, or whether the apothecia only open to discharge the ripe spores.
The apothecia in the young state resemble those of Parmelia on a small scale; but as they approach maturity, the centre becomes pushed up, so that the spore-layer is extended over the ends of the stalks.
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