CRYFTOGAMIA ALGM. 845 



with thick, Twelling, dark, fufcous, down/ 

 vens, which unite at the bafe of the leaf. 

 The fhields grow cut of the margin of the leaf, 

 fcffile,^ horizontal, plain, circular, and of a 

 rtddifh bhck colour. 



L. coriaceus repens lobatus obtufus planus, fubtus 

 venofus villofus, pelta marginali afccndentc. S-p. 

 pi. 1616. (Moris, hiji. 3.^. 6^2. fe£i. 1 S- f- 7./. 

 I. Fail. Paris. /. 2i-/. 16. DilUn. mufc. t. i-j. f, 

 102. opt.) 



A(h-colour'd ground Liverv/ort, or Lichen. Anglis. 



li grows upon the ground amongft mofs, at the 

 roots of trees in fhady woods, and alio in heaths 

 and Honey places frequent. 



The leaves are large, gradually dilated towards the 

 extremities, and divided into roundilh elevated 

 lobes. Their upper fide, in dry weather, is alh- 

 cobur'd, in rainy weather of a dull fulcous 

 green colour ; their under fide white and hoary, 

 having many thick downy nerves, from which 

 defcend numerous .long white pencil-like radi- 

 cles. 



The pehie^ or (hieldsj grow at the extremities of 

 the elevated lobes, fliap'd like the human nail, 

 of a roundilh oval form, convex above, con- 

 cave beneath ; of a^ chocolate colour on the up- 

 per fide, and the fame colour as the leaves on 

 the under. 



The 



