o6s OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



formed of decayed putrid mofs. The ftalks arc from an inch 'to 

 an inch and a half long, and branched, with fhort fibrils, and 

 warty excrefcences of a greyim-white, as if powdered. The fruc- 

 tifications are on the fides of the more rigid fibrils, in the form 

 of very fmall black tubercles, fometimes fmooth, and fometimcs 

 uneven, appearing through a magnifier as if two or three were 

 joined together. It is a fcarce plant. Dillenius refers us to the 

 Welch mountains, and the tranfmarine Alps, for it. 



8. Cyprefs-like, folid, coralline Mofs (f). On the rocks at Long- 

 Crag, by TTdJ/w^-ftreet ; alfo on the rocks by 7>r&?/-water-fall, 

 plentifully. It is from an inch and a half to two inches high. 

 The younger plants are thick fet with folioles, the older ones 

 with few, of a light brown, with a tinge of bright grey, in 

 their recent ftate, and glofly. The fructifications are at the top 

 of the more robuft plants, on fhort rigid fibrils, in the form of 

 orbicular or round tubercles, firfl of a light glofTy brown, and 

 afterwards black. Some of both colours are on the fame plant 

 in March. It is accounted a fcarce plant, and not very plentiful, 

 even at Snow den. 



9. Crejled, fne-leaved, folid, coralline Mofs (g). In a remarkable 

 fiflure, or ftnus, on the top of great Wane}'boufe-cra.g, called the. 

 Bier, plentifully. On the eaft fide, and near the bottom, of a 

 large fhadowy rock on the fouth fide of the brook below Teckct- 



(f) Lichsnoides non tubu'ofum, ramulis fcutellis nigris terminatis. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 66. 

 Coralloides cupreffiforme, capitulis globofis. Dill. Hift. Mufc, p. 117. 1.17. f. 35. 



(g) Corallina montana fruticofior. Raj. Syn. i. p. 18. Lichenoides non tubulofum ra- 

 mofiffimum frudliculi fpecie cinereo-fufcum. Syn. Ejufd. iii. p. 65. Lichen eredlus ramo- 

 fifllmus, ramis teretibus nudis filiformibus obtufis. Linn. Flo. Lapp. n. 440. t. n. f. 4. 

 CoraHoides alpinum corallinae minoris f.icie, Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 116. t. 17. f. 34. 



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