CRYPTOGAMIA ALG.i:. 853 



colour, and afterwards to a fufcous or livid afli- 

 colour, and the fliields to a brown red. 

 This ipecies has elbaped the notice of Linn^us^ 



L. coriaceus repcns laciniatus glaber, laciniarum 

 axilhs orbiculanbus, fcutellis fulvis & glomuhs 

 atroviridibns. 



L. laciniatus^ Hudf, FL yingl. p. 449. 

 ,L. amplijpjnus. ScopoL Carnicl. edit. 2. n. 1393. {.^ii- 

 cheL gen. t. 46. crd, 17. bona. Billen. mufc. i. 2b. 



. /. 99' ^P^') 



Pale bkie Icallop'd Lichen, bearing dark green 

 balls. Anglis. 



Upon the trunks and roots of trees, in fhady woods, 

 but not common. 



The leaves are four or five inches long, procum- 

 bent, and contiguous to each other, dilated to- 

 wards the extremities, and widely expanded, 

 for the mod part in a circular form. Tfeey arc 

 varioufly laciniated, and terminated with obtufe 

 crenated lobes. The axilla^ or angles of the 

 fegments, are circular, which is a fingular cha- 

 rader. Their fubftance is thick, tough, and co- 

 riaceous ; the furface fmooth, and without pits. 

 Their colour on the upper fide, when frelh, 4 

 pale cinereous blue; when dry, a yellowifh white 

 or buff-colour. Their under fide is (lightly 

 downy, and, by reafon of many fibrous radi- 

 cles, a little rough; when moift or foak'd in 



water, 



