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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Lichen. G. Somewhat crius- 
taceous ; THREAD-LIKE. 
Stem very short, woody. Branches many, sending out 
shorter lateral branches 1 to 2 inches or more in length, grey 
green, beset with thin stiff fibres. Dirt. Paler than the L. 
floridus, grey green or yellow white; branches more crowded 
and shorter. Horrman, ¢ , 
Woods, thickets and old hedges. Stumps of old pear trees, 
Herefordshire.” Mr. Srackuouse. iFga 
chalybeifor’ L, Plant prostrate ; branches straddling, waved and mat- 
_ > ie 
exi‘lis. 
lana’tus. 
~ ted together. i 
Dill. 13. 10—Fl. dan. 262. : 
Stems stiff, cylindrical, diverging, variously bending, not. 
crowded, 2 or 3 inches long, but little branched, grey to brown 
green. Growing on the trunks of oaks it does not hang down 
but clings to the bark. Dit. Fructification not discovered. ~ 
-'Tranks of trees, stones, and old wood. [On the south end 
of Kendal Fell, sometimes on the rocks, but more commonly 
on the dwarf Junipers, the branches of which it covers, giving 
the shrubs a grotesque appearance. Mr. Goucu. ] : 
L. Saucers brown black; plant black, roughish, opake ; 
very much branched; matted together. 
; Dill. 13. 9; resembles it ; (Lightfoot.) 
Saucers nearly as large as white Poppy seed, hemispherical, 
bordered, black, the ae blackish. brown, the oe en- 
tire. Hups. Seems to be between a Lichen and a poo a 
T have examined many scores, but never found it in fruit. Mr. 
Newserry. Have examined thousands of specimens, but never 
found it with saucers. Mr. Grirriru. S dee 
L. scaber. Huds.—On the most naked rocks of the High- 
land mountains. Licutr. [On rocks whose surfaces lie nearly 
even with the ground, on the sides of hills, the soil of which 
is peat earth, in Dartmoor, Devonshire. Mr. Newserry.]_. 
eo P. Jan, Dec. 
L. Plant nearly black, opake, prostrate, very much 
branched, matted together. scalars ; 
: Jacq. misc. i. 10) 5—Dill, ABLE 
‘Resembling the L. pubescexs, but much finer, nearly as fine 
as hair, less rigid, nay rather soft, very much branched, decum- 
bent, black green, opake. Jaca. Two or 3 inches long. 
Branches not compressed, blacker and more crowded than in the 
L. jubatus, diverging in various directious, more branched and 
sub-dividing into shorter and more numerous ~ hair-like seg- 
ments, matted together. Dizi. Branches sometimes swollen 
as if jointed. Can these swellings ever form the fructification? 
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