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Lichenographic :: Lichenographic (a.) Alt. of Lichenographica.

Apothecium :: Apothecium (n.) The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes..

Roccellic :: Roccellic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance C17H32O4..

Orchilla Weed :: Orchilla weed () The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.

Gonimous :: Gonimous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells..

Scyphus :: Scyphus (n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen..

Persis :: Persis (n.) A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.

Eschara :: Eschara (n.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched..

Lichenology :: Lichenology (n.) The science which treats of lichens.

Lichenic :: Lichenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens..

Lichenographical :: Lichenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to lichenography.

Rhizine :: Rhizine (n.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

Gonidium :: Gonidium (n.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

Trica :: Trica (n.) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows..

Soredium :: Soredium (n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

Manna :: Manna (n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food..

Ascus :: Ascus (n.) A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Lecanoric :: Lecanoric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.), as a white, crystalline substance, and is called also orsellic, / diorsellinic acid, lecanorin, etc..

Gonimia :: Gonimia (n. pl.) Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia..

Lichenin :: Lichenin (n.) A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss..

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