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fraxin’eus. 
CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG, Lichen. H.’ Herbateous. 
L. Saucers pale brown, on pedicles: foliage greenish 
—ash-colour 3; straight, oblong, spear-shaped, pitted, — 
smooth, somewhat jagged. 
Fl, dan. 1187—Dill. 22. 5¢—Hoffm. lich. 18. 1. 2-Tourn. 
325. A, B.-Happ. iii. Lichen 0-Walc. No. 9-H. ox. xv. 
7. row the last, 3 and 4; row 3. 14—Mich. 36.1. . 
_ From 1 to 6 inches high, varying in shape, wrinkled or 
meshed, with hollows on each side. Leaves of the younger 
plants, less wrinkled, shorter, spear-shaped. Branches but fews 
rising from one common stem, divided into several segments, 
terminating in pointed horns. Flexible when moist, more rigid 
and paler when dry. Colour on both sides glaucous, or pale ash, 
’ yellowish with age. Saucers very common, on every part of the 
plant, circular, concave, obtaining a pedicle from the substance 
of the leaf, pale brown or flesh-colour within. Horrman. Sax- 
cers mostly of a pale straw-colour, but sometimes of the same 
Colour with the leaf. Leaf greenish ash-colour, stiff. 5 
Tranks of treés, on poplar, apple, &c. but chiefly on oak 
and ash, oo P. Jan, — Dec. 
scopulorum L. Tubercles pale brown, glossy, on short pedicles : fo- 
Bur 'gessii, 
liage pale green, straight, flat, glossy, strap-shaped, 
a little jagged, ew 
E bot. 688-Fl. daz. 959.2. 
Not L. scopulorum, of Gmel. syst. veg. and Dill. 22. 603 - 
for that is L. fucoides, not above an inch long, and has a vel- 
vety surface; this is 6 or 8 inches long, its surface quite 
smooth __ 
On rocks both in England and Scotland, Dicks, iii. 18. 
L. Saucers brown, elevated ; border green, leafy, curled: 
leaves somewhat tiled, curled, green. 
E. bot. 300-Lightf. 26. 1. at p. 826—Hoffm. enum. 21. 1. 
_ Leaves thin, pellucid, dull gréen, clustered together so as to 
form a thick cushion about as broad as the hand: smooth above, 
finely downy beneath, purplish brown when dry and the under- 
side hoary. Dr. Smrru; who discovered this rare species about 
the Devil’s bridge, at Hafod in Cardiganshire, on trunks of 
trees. See E. bor. p. 30C, — . 
It was first discovered on trunks of hazel and birch in Dum- 
frieshire, by the Rev, Dr, Bureezss of Kirkmichael. 
glomuliferus. L, Saucers tawny : leaves glaucous, even, creeping, bear- 
™, 
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ing dark green branched, tufted excrescences. 
E. bot. 293—Mich. 4€-Diil, 26. 99—Facq. coll. iii. 9. 2. 
