CRYPTOGAMIA ALGM. U^ 



L. fcyphifer fimplex crenulatiis, tubcrculis fufcis. 

 Sp. pi. 1619. (FarL Paris t. n. f. 8. Michel 

 gen. t. /[i.f. I. Dillen. mufc. t. 14./. 6. A-M,) 



Common Cup-MoTs, or Lichen. Anglis. 



In heaths, and on banks and rocks, and about the 

 roots of old trees. 



The ground of this is at firft a granulated cruft 

 only, which grows afterwards to fmali leaves, 

 irregularly laciniated, green on the upper fide, 

 white underneath ; at the bafe of which leaves 

 arife grey aOi-colour'd funnel-fliap'd cups, from 

 half an inch to an inch high, fometimes cover'd 

 with a farinaceous powder, and fometimes nor, 

 flender at the bafe, but widely expanded at the 

 rim. 1 he flalk of the cup, or funnel, is tu- 

 bular, but not throughout, for the cup itfelf is 

 concave and clofed at the bafe. The rim, ii" 

 attentively examined, is finely crenated. 



This is the moil common and fimple appearance of 

 this Lichen, but it varies greatly. 



Sometimes the margins are furrounded v/ith brown 

 fefTile tubercles, which in decay turn to a blackifh 

 colour. And fometimes thefe tubercles are fup- 

 ported on fliort peduncles, and begin to alTume 

 the appearance of fecundary cups. It is figur'd 

 in both thefe ftates by Dillenius^ t. 14./. 6. C. 



It is alfo frequently proliferous, and that in two 

 different ways. Sometimes fecondary cups grow 

 out of the margins of the firft, and others again 



out 



