Day 128: When it comes to the Peltigeras (in this case, Peltigera membranacea, Membranous Dog-Lichen), it's like a game of Plants vs. Zombies where you can't tell who won. The strange brown "fingernails" exhibited by this species are its fruiting bodies (apothecia). The undersides of its greenish-brown foliose thallus attaches to the substrate with holdfasts called "rhizines," rootlike structures which can be seen in the upper and lower right corner of the photo. Just when you thought the forest was safe, now you find zombies reaching their fingers up through a carpet of moss, waiting to grab you by the ankles.
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