CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGAE. Lichen. G: Somewhat crus- 45 
taceous ; THREAD-LIKEi 
Rocks, growing on moss, on the higher mountains of Scot- 
land. [About Garthmeilio, the seat of R. W. Wynne, Esq. 
M. P. abundantly. Mr. Grirrirs.] 
G. Somewhat crustaceous; THREAD-LIKE. 
L. Tubercles meal » scattered : plant yellow white; up- ochroleu’- 
right, bearish forked, straddling; points forked, cus. 
black. ) if 
Hoffm. lich. 26. 2. 
Branches interwoven, subdivisions more and more slender, 
the terminating ones hair-like. Surface smooth, almost shining. 
Horrman. This very remarkable species has no root, and no 
support but what it derives from its smaller extreme branches 
which entwine themselves about heath, grass, &c. Mr. Brown, 
High mountains in Scotland. Dicxs. iii, 19, [On Ben 
Bourde, Lochaine y Gair, and on many very high moors about 
Invercauld, in abundance. Mr. Brown. ] Aug. 
L. Tubercles whitish, mealy, very minute: plant pen-juba’tus. 
dent, compressed at the divisions of the branches. 
Dill. 12. 7-Happ. iii. Lichen 4. 
In greatest perfection in winter and spring; hanging’ down 
like the tail of a horse. Svems, the upper and thicker ones com- 
pressed, brown green to blackish: the slender thread-like stems 
cylindrical, smooth, not hard, greenish, not much branched, 
but sometimes twisted; and very much matted together. 
Dirt. Tzbercles very minute, Iateral, sitting ; sometimes 
ews rarely terminating and pear-shaped. ae: 
rocks and old trees in the Weft Riding of Yorkshire. On 
rocks in Chorley Forest, Leicestershire, and on the side of the 
Derwent. Derbysh. Dit. Wales and Scotland. Hups, and 
Licurr. [Mr. Gough of Kendal favoured me with a fine spe- 
_ timen about 9 inches long, of a bright bay colour, in some 
. Places tending to blackness. He supposes this colour might be 
caused by its seclusion from the light, for it grew near Orton 
in Westmoreland in the glley of a copper mine, hanging from 
the roof and timbers at the distance of 2 or 300 yards from the 
entrance. He since informs me that he has got specimens from 
a mine near Keswick of the length of 6 feet 5 inches.] 
L,, Tabetcles mealy, scattered: plant upright, very muchhir‘tus. 
Apes Bly, Seater: Plant pean, 
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