CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJE. 809 



criceiorufn L. Icprofus candidus, tnberciilis inCarnatls. S'>. pi. 

 17' i6qS. {Mich. gen. /. 59. Ordo 35. Dillen, muf^.t. 



14./. 1.; 

 Flefh-colour'd Mufhroom Licf^n. AngHs, 

 Upon the ground in heaths, upon the fides of peat- 

 bogs, gravei-pits, and on banks. 

 The ground of this Lichen is a thin, wide fprcad- 

 ing, granulated, leprous cruft, of a greemfii 

 afh-coiour, turning white in the Spring, out of 

 which arife numerous convex fleih-colour'd tu- 

 bercles, fupported on fhort pedicles, like little 

 fungi. The pedicles are grooved, fomewhat 

 thick, whiiiih, and about i-6th of an inch high, 

 pften divided at the top, and fupporting fevcral 

 tubercles, 

 p. A variety of this (according to Linn-cus) having 

 the fame kind of cruil, but flat, klTile fhields, 

 inftead of pedunculated tubercles, frequently 

 occurs. It is figured in Oeder'sFl. Dau t. 472. 

 /. 4, This deferves better to be ditlinguifhed 

 as a fpecies, according to our judgment, than 

 the following. 



^j^/c/J/rj \% L- leprofo-farinaceus, peltls f^ipitatis fubglobofi'-. 

 Lin. mantifs. prima, p. 133. .SyjL nut. edit, 

 13. ^- 805. \Billen. mujc. t. 14 / 4. £^ c.; L. 

 ritfus. Hud. FL 4ng. p. 443. 



Brown Mufliroom Lichen. Anglis. 



It grows upon rocks, old r/alh, and fiMiicrimfs up- 

 on the ground* 



