CRYPTOGAMIA ALGM, SSs 



We pretend not to difpute this matter with anf 

 perfon difpofed to think lb. But as the ftalks 

 and branches of this Lichen, fo far as wc have 

 hitherto noticed, do generally^ if not always, 

 preferve their fhrubby appearance, being either 

 cylindrical or comprefTed 5 not compofed of a 

 fmgie membrane like the L. ijlandicus ; and as 

 we have feen it in this ftate in full fructifica- 

 tion, we cannot but think ourfelves juftified, it 

 for no other reafon, yet for the cafe of the ftu- 

 dent only, in giving ic a place among the L. 

 fruticulsft. 



L. fruticulofus folidus ramofus, ramis dcclinatis 

 compreffis dichotomis, fcutellis plano-convexis 

 fungiformibus. (Dillen. mufc. t, I'j^f^ 37. bona, 

 Haller. hifi. «. 1966. /. 47./. i.finefrvM,) 



Black horned Wrack Lichen. Anglis. 



Upon the rocks in the Highland mountains in 

 many places, as on Creg-chailkcb^ in Breadal- 

 bane, on Beri'-Lomondi on the mountains in Rofs" 

 Jhire^ and the ifle of Skye, &c. 



The ftalks are from half an inch to an inch long, 

 and grow reclined in a fmall thick tuft. They 

 are folld, fmooth, comprefled, dichotomoufly 

 branched, and terminate in fubulated horns or 

 forks, of a duiky olive colour when moift, al- 

 moft black when dry, their fubftance rigid, 

 tough and horny. 



The 



