^o6 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^E. 



rupccia 12 L. leprofus albidus, tubcrculls p.-sllidis albo-mnrri- 

 natis. Lirt.fyjt, nai. edit. i^.p. 805. (Fig. nulla.) 



Pale Rock Lichen. Anglis, 



Upon rocks frequent. 



The Crufl is very thin, and afh-colour'd. The tu- 

 bercles nearly of the fame colour, convex in the 

 centre, and furrounded with a whitifh margin, 

 which laft is the moft diflinguifhing character. 

 Sometimes the whole alTumes an olive colour. 

 It is very like the L. pallejcens var. ,3. n, 22. 

 hereafter defcribed ♦, but the frudlfications of 

 this are tubercles, and not Ihiclds, 



ventcfus 1 3 



L. leprofus flavus, tuberculis rubris. Sp. pi. 1607. 

 {Dillen. mufc t. iS.f. 14.^. 133. Oed. Dan. L 

 412. f. 1 ? ma! a.) 



Red-fpangled tartareous Lichen. Anglis, 



Upon rocks facing the North both in the high- 

 lands and lowlands. L'pon the mountains about 

 Breadalba7je. Mr. Stuart. Upon the rocks about 

 New-Pofjo. Mr. Talden, And upon the high 

 rocks called the Craig's ^Pifi nock, at Kirkmicbael, 

 in Dumfriesffoire. Dr. Burgefs. We have alfo 

 feen the fame gathered in Tcrkjhire and North- 

 Wales. 



It has a hard tartareous cruft, crack'd and teffcllated 

 on the fur'face, of a pale yellow colour when 

 frefh, a light olive when dry. The tubercles 

 are of a blood-red colour at top, their margin 

 and bale or the fame colour as the crufl. 



It 



