8io CRYPTOGAMfA ALG^. 



The cruft is farinaceous or granulated, like the 

 preceding, and of the fame colour, but the 

 tubercles are brown. It is probably only a va- 

 riety of the foregoing. 



B. * Lepro/t fcutellati, 



mrantiacus 'L. leprofus albido-cinereu^, fcuteliis aurantiacis. 

 '9- {Fig. nulla,) an L, favo-rui^e/cens ? Hudf. 



Orange Lichen. yl?iglis. 



Upon the bark of oaks, and other trees, and 

 fometimes upon rocks. 



The cruft, when it grows on bark, is whitifh alh- 

 coloiii'd, when on rocks darker afh-coloor'd. 

 The fruflificatlons are numerous fmall fnields, 

 of an orange colour, with margins of the fame 

 colour. The margins of the larger and full- 

 grown lliields are curled or undulated. It is 

 ftrange that Dillenius Ihould not have defcrib'd 

 this fpecies, as we oblerv'd fpeciniens of it 

 amongfl: hiscolleftion huddled together with the 

 'L.Jubfufcus, from which none can be more dif- 

 tind. Mickeli Teems to have mentioned it un- 

 der the name of Lichen crujiacefus^ arbor ibus ad- 

 rif.jcens^ ex albo fubcinereus, rece[)tacuUsfloru7n au- 

 reis 72udis. Gen. pi. />. qH. No, 33. 



We fhould think it the fame with Hudfon\ L.fla- 

 vorubefc<ens., but the frudifiications are properly 

 fhields, and not tubercles. 



(audeJarius L. cruflaceus Bavus, fcuteliis luteis, 5/>.^/. 1608. 

 ?.o. (Dilkn. mufc, T, 18./, 18.) 



Yellow 



