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LICHENES HIMALAYENSES : being an Enumeration of the Lichens* col- 
lected in the Himalaya Mountains by Captain R. Strachey, of the 
Bengal Engineers, and J. E. Winterbottom, Esq., F.L.S., during the 
years 1847 and 1848; by the Rev. CHURCHILL BABINGTON, M.A., 
Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. 
The Lichens described below were kindly placed in my hands by 
Captain Strachey and Mr. Winterbottom: they are of considerable 
interest, as being among the first spoils of the Lichen-flora of the 
Himalaya Mountains: among them are several which appear to be 
new; the greater proportion, however, are the same as the European 
species. Valuable collections of Lichens, from other parts of the same 
mountains, have been made by Dr. T. Thomson and by Dr. J. D. 
Hooker, a considerable portion of which they have been so good as to 
show me: among them are many which do not occur in the following 
catalogue. It seems best, however, to enumerate the present Lichens — 
separately, both because they have been collected at some distance from 
the places visited by the other two botanists, and more especially, be- 
cause some time may elapse before the whole of the Himalayan Lichens 
can be properly examined. 
1. Usnea longissima, Ach. LL. 
Has. Chinar, Kumaon, alt. above the sea 8700 feet; barren. 
(Coll. n. 23.) 
2. Usnea ceratina, Ach. em e 
Haz. On wood; the same habitat and altitude as the preceding. | 
(Coll. n. 24.) 
 Apothecia very pruinose ; the denuded 
of the thallus smooth, sorediated ; fibrillæ very numerous, 
varicated. 
disc inclining to red ; branches : 
flaccid, di- 
3. Usnea Himalayana, Bab.; thallo plano molliusculo pendulo longis- 
simo pallide ochroleuco aut virescente ramosissimo son bebes d 
albidis adsperso demum articulato, ramis flexuosissimis repetitim 
ramosis, fibrillarum apicibus concoloribus ; apotheciis (imperfectis) ; 
planiusculis carneis subsessilibus demum obscurioribus immarginatis, - 
margine subfibrilloso. 
* Tam indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom, ILU 
that of the Hon. the Court of Directors of the East India Company, D; E 
of selecting specimens for my own herbarium from their collection of Lichens.—C. D. 
