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water-fall, near the top of the bank. It has only a thin coat of 

 earth, formed of rotten mofs, to fiiftain it. The ftalks are from 

 an inch to an inch and a half long and branched. The folioles 

 are fine, clofe, and thick fet, down to the very bafe of the 

 younger plants, of a grey colour, with a caft of fca-green, and 

 fometimes with a blum of red. The fructifications are on the tops 

 of the branches of the more robuft and aged ones. They are 

 fail roundifli, and afterwards expand to a flat circular form, a 

 quarter of an inch in diameter, of a beautiful black, wi.-h a 

 purplifh caft ; in their recent ftate refembling the nap of velvet. 

 Above them is a creft of fine fliort f pinnules. It is a fcarce plant. 

 Dlllenius refers us to the Welch mountains for it. It is in its 

 greateft beauty in the latter end of September. 



i o. The prickly, dijlorted, tubulous, horned Mofs, 'with foliaceous ex- 

 crefcences fh), is not unfrequent on dry barren heaths, and on 

 old walls topped with earth. It is on an old wall on the fouth 

 fide of the military road, a quarter of a mile weft from Carraw, 

 plentifully. It is from two to three or four inches high, and 

 branched, in the form of a little bufli, dichotomus, diftorted, 

 rigid and prickly. The fructifications are fmall and orbicular, 

 at the top of the incurvated fibrils, firft of a flefli-colour, and 

 afterwards brown ; perfected in autumn. It varies in its fize 

 and fhape, according to its age and fituation. On fhadowy 

 heaths and walls it is robuft, and frequently comprelTed. In a 



(b) Lichen coralloides, tubulofus, rrnjor, montantis, e cinereo-viridi refufcens, caulibus 

 recurvis, nonnihil foliofis, inordinate difpofitis, receptaculis fbrum craflioribus refufcentibus. 

 Michel. Ord. vi. p. 80. n. 10. t. 40. f. 5. Hall. Helv. p. 68 Mufco-fungus cornicula- 

 tus major cinereus ramulis latioribus, & fere verrucofis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 633. n. 8. 

 Lichenoides tubulofum ramofum rigidius, majus & crafiius, cinereo-fufcum. Dill. Giff. 

 p. 203. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 67. n. 16. Coralloides fparfum, caulibus tortuofis & fpinolis. 

 Dill. Hift. Mufc, p. 101. t. 16. f. 25. 



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