OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



lington> near Wark, in Tynedak, plentifully. The llalks of the 

 young plants are round, of a bright white, tipt with brown. 

 Thofe of the old ones are comprefTed, and entirely brown j which 

 are the diftinctions between it and the former. 







15. Great, foft, open, coralline Mofs (n). On moid heaths. On 

 Broadpool-common by Ravensbugh-crag, at the roots of the Eric/e, 

 plentifully. It is three or four inches high, perforated at the 

 divarications of the branches, and alfo at the ends, with fpinmi- 

 les elegantly difpofed in the form of a ftar. 



16. Small, foft, open, coralline Mofs (o). With the former, fre- 

 quent. It is from an inch to three inches high, with very fhort 

 branches at the top, perforated like the former. At the bottom 

 and on the lower part are fmall folioles, of a pale green above, 

 and white underneath, fparingly crenated. The upper part is 

 thick fet with foliaceous excrefcences. The fructifications are 

 on the tips of the fibrils or branches of the more robuft plants, 

 fmall and orbicular, of a reddifh-brown, perfected in Septem- 

 ber. 



(n) Lichenoides tubulofum, cauliculis mollioribus & craflioribus majus. Raj, Syn. iif. 

 p. 67. n. 20. Ccralloides perforatum majus, molle & craflum. Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 98. 

 t. 15. f. 21. 



(o) Lichen coralloides tubulofus, albidus, minor et mollior, caulibus craflioribus, minus 

 ramofis, receptaculis florum perexiguis, refufcentibus. Michel. Ord. vi. p. 79. n. 7. Li- 

 chenoides tubulofum, cauliculis mollioribus & craflioribus, minus. Baj. Syn. iii. p. 67. 

 n. 21. Lkhen frudticulofus perforatus, ramulis breviflimis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 979. 

 Lichen caule ramofo, alis perforatis, ramis breviffimis acutis. Flo. Lapp. n. 438. Reyen. 

 lugdb. p. 511. Coralloides perforatum minus, molle, & tenue. Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 99. 

 t. 1 6. f. 22. 



17. There 



