«72 CRYPTOGAMIA AhGJE. 



This, like the other fpecics, has fometimes proli- 

 ferous margins. 



We believe this to be a young variety of the L. 

 cocciferus, and are pretty certain that it fome- 

 times changes into the L. cornucopioides. 



dciccrnis L« fohis f^jbereiSlis laciniatis cartilagineis fcyphife- 

 78. ris, fcyphis primum breviffimis conicis fimpHci- 



bus, deinde prohferis tubercuHs nigris. h.folia- 

 ceus. Hudf. Fl. Ang. p. 457. {DHlen. t. 14./. 12. 

 . J.B. C. D.) 

 Elk's Horn Lichen. Anglis. 

 Upon heaths and mountains. 

 The leaves are large for the fize of the cups, and 

 nearly ereft, fmooth on both fides, of a tougl 

 cartilaginous fubflance, plain, but the edges i 

 little inflefted, either grey or yellowifli green or 

 the upper fide, but white underneath, and va 

 rioufly divided fo as to refemble in good mea 

 fure an elk's horns. 

 The little tubular cups arife out of the middle an( 

 margins of the leaves, very Ihort and inverted! 

 conical, at firft with fimple or (lightly crenate 

 rims. This is the winter appearance of thi 

 Lichen. 

 In the fummer it puts on a different afpeft. Th 

 margins of the leaves vanifh, and the firmc 

 central parts only, or fkeleton of them, remair 

 ^f a tough gluey fubftance, with here and the. 



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