CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Lichen. H. Herbaceous. 
1 to 3 inches high, or more, variously branched. Leaves (or. 
rather stems) convex on one side, hollow on the other, with 
shallow oblong pits on each sidey smooth, rather shining and 
stiffish. Saucers small, lateral and termimating, concave, bes 
coming flat, thé same colour as the plant, viz. pale greenish 
grey. The tops of the branches end in hooked points, either 
upright or or:zontal, which is peculiar to this species and rea- 
dily distinguishes it. Drix. 
Rocks, and on the bark of trees, P, Jan.— Dec, 
Var. 2. Tubercles hemispherical, ~ 
Plant simple greenish yellow white; solid, smooth; 1 or 
1} inch high. Tubercles yellow white; white within; termi- 
nating, though there is often a small branch sent out from the 
base of the tubercle, in nearly an horizontal direction, The 
plant though smooth to the touch is not without some minute 
rising eminences. 
~ On a high Common at the Land’s End, Cornwall, May. 
_ LL, Tubercles’ blackish, ‘like dots inthe substance of the 
plant, at length rising to the surface; leaf dark green, 
thickish, minute; the angles rounded. 
E. bot. 595—Hedw. stirp. ii. 20. A—Mich. 54, ord. 36. S= 
Dill. 30. 133. 
__ L. endocarpon. Bot. Arr. Ed. iii, Endocarpon pusillum. 
Hedwig. On the ground on barren heaths near Croydon. [Cre- 
vices of rocks thinly covered with earth, King’s Park, Edin- 
burgh Mr. Brown. ] 
L. Saucers brown black, border like the leaf: foliage red- 
dish yellow ‘with yellow granulations : segments 
indented, rounded, pitted. as 
Dicks b. s.-Hoffm. lich. 38. 1, 2, 2-Dill. 84. 12. 
Foliage yellow and powdery at the edge. Linn. Leaf some. 
what leathery, flat, somewhat wrinkled, divided into large seg- 
ments, of different shades of yellow green, olive and reddis 
within always bright yellow, of the same colour underneath, 
but covered with a blackish wool, with yellow dots interspersed, 
Yellow balls disposed along the edge and often over the whole 
surface in a chain-like or net-like manner. Saucers few, the 
border thick, formed by a swelling of the leaf, Dicks. 
Rocks inthe Highland. ot 
L. Saucers brown, white on the outside, on pedicles : 
~ foliage nearly white, quite white and cottony under- 
neath; pitted, rather upright. ib83 
Dill. 21, 55—Vaill. 20. 11~Ger. 1377. 1-Kniph, 12 
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