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more expofed fituation, on dry walls, and naked rocks, it is 

 meager and flender, but in both thefe ftates it is covered with a 

 fcabrous cruft. It fometimes, indeed, lofes its coat by being 

 weather-beaten, or by age, and then it is fometimes taken for a 

 different fpecies. 



JJT ii. The glabrous, prickly, tiibulous, horned Mofs (I}, is frequent 

 about dry alpine rocks, and on old walls, topped with earth. 

 It is plentiful on the fame wall with the former. Ic is alfo upon 

 7>c&tf-rocks. It is in the form of a little bufh, from an inch to 

 three inches high, ufually of a dark grey or brown. The 

 branches are glabrous, flender and rigid, ending in reflex 

 fliarp fibrils. 



12. Thefoft, grey, tubulous, horned Mofs (k), is not uncommon in 

 the openings of woods, and barren fhady places. I ru,"eobferved 

 it under the buflies by the road between Broadpool-common and 

 Thorough-gales, near Simonburn, in autumn It is three or four 

 inches high, of a whitifh-grey, fparingly fet with branches and 

 foliaceous excrefcences. The fructifications are on the tips, fmall 

 and orbicular, of a reddifti-brown. 



(!) Lichen terreftris, atro-fufcus, mmor, ramoflor, ac rigidior, & veluti aculeatus. 

 Michel. Ord. v. n. 18. p. 78. Lichen coralloides duiior, alpinus, minimus, ramofiffimus. 

 Hall. Helv. p. 69. 



(k) Mufcus corniculatus. Tabern. p. 809. Icon lona. I. B. iii. p. 767. Lichenoides 

 tubulofum cinereum, minus cruftaceum, minufque ramofum. Dill. GiIT. p. 203. Rf/j- Syn. 

 iii. p. 67. n. 17. Lichen frufliculofus, tubulofus, dichotomus, ramis fimplicibus fubu'atis. 

 Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 981. Lichen caule erelo dichotomo, ramis iubulaas. Flo. Lapp, 

 n. 435. Ryea. lugdb. p 512. Coralloides corniculis longioribus & rarioribus. Dill. HA, 

 Mufc. p. 102. 1. 16. f. 26, 



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