the Flora Anglica, in the place of which I have adopted a nearly fimilar appe I, 

 lation, propofed by my friend Sir Thomas Frankland. 



C. ebenea grows on rocks and trees in thick black tufts, together forming 

 patches of various fizes, but it is not by any means . common fpedes . M? 

 Turner tells me that at a little diftance the patches look like fmall fpots of foot 

 The filaments I believe never exceed three or four lines, and are moft frequently 

 considerably lefs than a line in length; their fubftance is Itiff, fomewhat horny 

 and their growth erect: they are about twice branched in a fub-dichotomous 

 manner, and the branches are irregularly befet with fimple patent ramuli with 

 obtufe apices. The diffepiments are opake, more or lefs contracted, and divide 

 the filaments into joints, of which the length about equals their thieknefs. No 

 fructification has been difcovered. 



In drying it adheres but very /lightly to either Glafs or Paper. 



A. C. ebenea, natural fize. 



B. Ditto, magnified 3. 



C. Ditto, ditto 1. 



