;20 CRYPTOGAMIA AhGTE. 



The leaves are fmooth and lliining, of a glofTy 

 olive colour, expanded flat in a circle of one or 

 two inches in diameter, and obtufely lobed at 

 the extremities. 



Some fpecimens arc covered in the centre with a 

 crowd of granulated farinaceous tubercles, of 

 the fame colour as the leaves. Thefe we never 

 obferv'd to produce fhields. 



Others have numerous concave fhields in the cen- 

 tre of the leaves, of a fufcous olive colour, 

 their margins and outfides covered with nume- 

 rous little fmooth warts, or tubercles. The 

 leaves are alfo fprirgled over with the fame kind 

 of tubercles. The fhields arc rarely found. 



There is alfo a variety of this Lichen, which pro- 

 duces fmooth fhields, but in other rcfpeds limi- 

 lar. It is figured by Dillemus, Hiji. mufc. t. 24. 

 /. -jy. yf.-C. and by MkhcL /. 51. Ordo XIX. 



crij^ns 32. 



L. imbricatus, follis lohatis truncatis crenatis atro- 

 viridibus, fcutellis concoloribus. Syjl. 7iat. edit. 

 13, f. 806. Uudf. Ang. 447. {Billen. mufc. t. ig. 

 /. 23.) 



Curled Jelly Lichen. Jnglis. 



In (hady ftoney places, and at the foot of walls 

 and rocks. 



The fubftance of this is thick and jelly-like, the 

 colour a black green. The leaves lie upon the 

 ground, one over another, divided into broad 

 obtufe lobes at the extremities, which lobes 



are 



