fra’gilis. 
yermicu- 
Ja’ris, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Lichen. F. Somewhat crus« 
taceous, SHRUB-LIKE. 
soft when fresh, stiff when’dry, smooth. Tabercles terminating, 
numerous, globular, containing a black powder, the outer coat 
thick, cracking in 3.0r 4 places, Dinu, 
L. globifer. Gmel. syst. veg. Rocks at Tunbridge. On 
the Stieperstones, Shropshire. “Snowdet; and in the Highlands 
and Lowlands, [Rocks in the mountainous parts of Dartmoor, 
Devonshire,» Mr. Newserry. Rocks aa: 
land. Mr. Woopwarp. ] . 
L. Saucers filled with black powder, terminating : plant 
solid, branches nearly cylindrical, blunt. 
Ey bot. 114—Dill, 17. 34—Hoffm. lich. 33. 3-F i. lapp. 11, 4- 
Jacq. misc. tie 9. Cee. 
It cannot be gathered without breaking, except when moist, 
as it is more brittle than a Coralline, which it also much resem- 
bles. Linw, Stem and branches short, cylindrical, solid, brittle, 
blunt, rather shining, dirty white, often reddish at the ends; 
white within. Jacquin. Grows compacted .together, shrub- 
like, 1 or 1} inch high. Roots woody, brown black, penetrate 
ing the fissures of schistus- rocks. Stems stiff, like ivory. 
Branches numerous, cylindrical, smooth, blunt at the end, 
forked or entire. Fruit-bearing plants thicker, broader, com. 
pressed, pitted and unequal. Tubercles hard, solid, globular, 
filled with sooty powder. Diu. 
On rocks and stones ov mountains-and high heaths. 
L. Tubercles dark brown, vety small, fw: lateral, glo- 
bular; branches white, nearly cylindrical, awl- 
shaped, spreading from one central point. Bie 
Jacq, call, ii, 12, 2-Hoffm, lich, 29, 1, 3—Dicks. 6, Ws 
In:tufts. Issuing and diverging from one central point. 
Awl-shaped, 2 to 3 inches long; soft, hollow, snowy white, 
reclining, very rarely branched, sometimes here and there a 
litcle tooth is found, but no leaves. Jaco. Stems aw]-shaped, 
tapering to a point, irregularly matted together, variously bend- 
ing, rarely forked, here and there a short lateral branch, not 
unlike tubercles, hollow within, tough and pliable when moist, 
brittle when dry. Horrman, 
L. vermicellaris, and also L. subuliformis of Gmel. syst. 
veg-—Among moss on the higher mountains of Scotland: [at 
or near their summits ; also on moors between Forfar and Cor- 
- tachy. Mr. Brown. ] 
rangiferi’-L. Tubercles brown: plant hoary, hollow, very m 
hus, 
branched; terminating branches mostly turned 
downwards, 
Pp. Jan.—Dec, 
