LICHENS. 21 J 



" Knowing each germ of life He gives, 

 Must have in Him its source and rise ; 

 Eeing that of His being lives 



May change, but never dies. 



" Ye dead leaves dropping soft and slow, , 



Ye mosses green and lichens fair, 

 Go to your graves, as I will go, 

 For God is also there/' 



The genus Solorina contains but two species ; its 

 characteristics are the orbicular apotheciae and woolly 

 veins. The Saffron Socket-lichen (Solorina crocea), is 

 yellow or greenish, and its sunken apotheciae are chestnut. 

 It grows on ground at the top of mountains. We have 

 none of us found it, only learned its characteristics from 

 Hooker s description. 



Once I had the good fortune to find the green Socket- 

 lichen (Solorina saccata, Plate XV., Jig. 3). We were 

 wandering on the Yorkshire moors, with the intention of 

 seeing a smelting mill, and collecting anything that could 

 be found. We had left the broad valley, and with it all 

 signs of verdure, and had followed the miners path till 

 we reached first the mill, and then the mouth of the mine. 

 Long lines of carts drawn by a horse along the tramway 

 brought lead ore from under the gloomy archway in the 

 hillside, and deposited their burdens in heaps outside the 

 mill. It was a July day, and how the sparkling metal 

 glittered in the sun ! What a comfort it seemed to the 

 heavy mill wheels as they laboured round and round, 

 crushing the ore, that water was for ever dripping over 

 them ! And with what an unearthly glare did the 

 molten lead bubble and gurgle from the oven's mouth 



