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exanthe- 
ma’ticus, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGAE: Lichen. B. (3) Crustaceous, 
with SAUCERS. 
shire. Mr. Grirritu,. On flints on the highest parts of the 
Isle of Wight, ] : 
L. Saucers flesh-coloured, very minute, sunk in the white 
dots of the crust; crust ash-coloured, sprinkled 
with white dots. . 
Linn, tr. i. 4. 1. 
Crust very thin, scarcely palpable: grey, sprinkled with 
white dots consisting of small cavities closed by a white 
wrinkled substance, which opening in the centre discover the 
saucer, These dots s when old, and leave a cavity in 
the stone. Dr..Smith, Linn. tri. p. 81. 
On calcareous rocks in Scotland, Dickson. iii, 14, - 
marmo’reus L, Saucers flesh-coloured within, concave: border whit- 
tricolor, 
ish and hairy : crust pale greyish brown. 
 Hoffm. enum. 6. 4, 
On the bark of trees, and on the bare ground covered with 
decayed moss, in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Scotland, 
L, Saucers orange-coloured, border pale brown; crust 
dull green. : 
= Pirate XXXI. f, 6. ay Se 
_ Saucers very minute, deeply hollowed, like the cup of a Pe. 
21Za, ; 
On halt decayed oak bark, Mr, Grrrrity, who first disco- 
vered it, and favoured me with specimens, He has lately met 
with it on calcareous sand stone, the saucers considerably raised 
above the crust, Garreg-wen rocks, near Garn, Also on the 
bark of birch trees, and then the saucers are whiter, 
When it grows old the saucers become black, and their OP. 
posite edges turn inwards, so that the whole assumes an oblong 
figure with a groove extending its whole length, In this state 
it is the Spheria sulcata of Bolton, the Lichen pulicaris of Hoff- 
man, the Lichen scriptus 8, pulicaris of Lightfoot, and is 
figured in : 
Lichen marmoreus, Es bot. 730~Bolt, 124~Mich. 54. ord. 
: 37s 2—Hoffm. enum. 3, 25 es , 
About the size of a flea, with a deep furrow extending from 
end to end, Bort, Se: . 
On decayed branches of ash trees. Borr. In Norfolk and 
Suffolk, Mr, Woovwarp; but we are indebted to the accurate 
researches of Mr. Grirrrru, for the discovery of its curious trans. 
formation. This singular plant possesses the crust of a Lichen, 
the cup of a Peziza, and the capsule of a Spharia, 
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