CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Lichen. B, (3) Crustaceous, 23 
with SAUCERS. 
L. Saucers yellow, with a white border: crust whitish, _tarta’reus, 
E. bot. 156-Dill. 18. 13-Facg. coll. iv. 8. 2. 
- Substance tough, not gritty; acrid. Crust thickish, wide 
spreading, greatly wrinkled, reticulated underneath, growing on 
- other decayed mosses. Szaucers large, deeply concave, borders 
sometimes scolloped. Diz. It assumes various appearances. 
Sometimes has a thinner and more uniform crust than usual, 
thickly covered with white tubercle-like excrescences, and free 
from shields except in the centre, where they are so thickly 
crowded as to be confluent. Sometimes it grows on moss, the 
branches of which are surrounded with it exactly like the in- 
ctustations formed by springs abounding in a calcareous earth 
running over a bed of moss. Mr. Woopw. Crust sometimes 
with a greenish cast. 
Rocks and large stones. North of England, Devonshire 
and Wales. Bingley, Yorkshire, Caernarvon, Highlands and 
Lowlands. [Stierperstone, Shropshire. Ditt, Malvern Hills. 
Mr, Battarp. On Schistus in Wales. Mr. Grirritu.] 
P. Jan.—-Dec, * 
L. Saucers dirty yellow, flat, imperfectly bordered : crust fusco-lu'teus. 
whitish, granulated. ; 
: Dicks. h. s. and fase. 6. 2. 
Crust cohering, covering mosses and other dead plants on 
which it grows, so that it has the appearance of having leaves 
and branches. Szucers of middling size, covered witha yellow 
meal, which being rubbed off they appear black, whence their 
general dirty hue. Border visible by means of a magnifying 3 
glass. Dicks. Unless in fruit it cannot be distinguished from 
L. frigidus. Mr. Brown. fa ; 
On Ben Lawers and other mountains of Scotland. [On 
Craig Cailleach at great heights, and always on the ground 
amongst moss and grass. Mr. Brown, | Aug. 
L. Saucers pale yellow, smooth ; border and under side ceri’nus. 
whitish ; crust grey white. | 
stan Heda. stirp. ii 21. B. 
The saucers frequently swell out so much in the middle as 
to assume the form of tubercles, covering the whole surface of 
the crust. They change to dirty brown yellow when dry, but 
when macerated regain their former colour, like that of bees 
ee : 
* It is common in Derbyshire on timetone, and incrusts most of the 
stones at Urswic Mere. It is gathered for the dyers, by peasants who ea, 
sell it fora pennya pound. They cap collect 20 of 30 poundsaday. It 
_ $lves a purplecolour. 2 . : ‘ 
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