CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE, 8S3 



They are tubular, grey, or aih-colour'd at the 

 bafe with a tinge of brown, but fufcous at the 

 top. 



The old plants are either of a grey brown colour, 

 or totally brown, rigid and branched, the 

 branches irregular, greatly diftorted, and befet 

 here and there with innocent fpines, fome ered: 

 and fome recurved. The branches, when young, 

 generally end in two or three fhort forks, when 

 old frequently in fingle fpines. 



The tubercles are of a chocolate colour, and grow 

 on the fummits of the branches. Sometimes 

 thefe fummits open, dilate, and become pal- 

 mated, each fegment of the divifion terminated 

 with a tubercle. 



It varies from one to three inches in height, and, 

 fo far as we have obferved, is deftitute of leaves. 



(pidks 2ij L. fruticulofus folidus' ramofilTimus, ramis divari- 

 ' catis fubcomprcffis glabrls fpinulofis, angulisob- 



tiifis. (Dillen. mufc. t. ly. f. 31. J, B.) an varie- 



tas L. iflandici ? Lin. 



Little brown prickly Lichen. A',igUs. 

 Upon the Highland mountains not uncommon, as 

 on Creg' chaillech^ in Breadalbane^ &c. Mr, Tal- 

 dsn gathered it in the Lowlands, upon a hill 

 called Scrape, near Ne^Uu-Poffo. 

 It is about an inch high, and grows in thick, en- 

 tangled tufts, or clufters, of a dark brown and 



fometimcs 

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