CRYPTOGAMIA ALGM, 



put of the margins of the fecond, and fo on fqi:' 

 three or four ftages one above another, the cups 

 one while producing tubercles on their margins, 

 another while none, and the ftalks fometimcs fo- 

 liaceous, and fometimes not fo. In all thefd 

 ftates it is figured by Di/ienius, t. 14./. 6. 1. K. 

 L. M. Michel t. 41. ord, 8./. 7. 8. 



The other manner in v/hich it becomes proliferous, 

 is, when fecondary cups arifc out of the centre 

 of the firfl:, others out of the centre of the fe- 

 cond, and fo on fometimes even to five ftages ; 

 the rim of the cups, in the mean time, being 

 either deftitute of tubercles, or furrounded with 

 fmall feffile fufcous or black ifh ones. See Dille- 

 nius, t. 14. /. 6. D. E. F. G. H. Vail, paris. t, 

 21./. 5. 



A decoftion of this mofs is fometimes given by 

 the vulgar to children to cure the -whooping cough, 

 but the good effeds of it are net fupported by 

 proptr tellimonies, 



L. fcyphifer fimplex denticulatus, ftipite cylindri- 

 CQ, Sp. i)L 1 6 19. (Vail, paris. /. 21./. 6. &? va- 

 rietas prolifera, f. 9. Dillen- mufc. t. 14./. 8. J, 

 £. C.) 



Serrated Cup Lichen. Anglis. 



In moors and heaths with th« foregoing. 



This, in all probability, is only a variety of the 

 laft. The ftalks are whiter than that, and ge- 

 nerally 



