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17. There is a VARIETY of it on Tecket-rocks a little more than 

 an inch long, thick fet with foliaceous excrcfcences, in the form 

 of a Jtag' 's-horn (p). 



18. There is another VARIETY among other moffes in thefauf 

 or large aperture, called the Bier, on the top of great Viancyhmife- 

 crag, near Siv ef hope-lake, with {lender ftalks, two or three inches 

 high, divided into two ftaight, upright forks, or tubules (q). 



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19. There is a third VARIETY in the fhadowy clefts of Raven s- 

 hugh-crag, and of the precipices by Cr^-lake, with ihort, thick, 

 cylindric ftalks, an inch and half long, fparingly fet towards the top 

 with fhort, flenderyta, with numerous minute crenated folioles. 

 larger on the lower part and at the bottom, of a pleafant fea- 

 green above, and lilvery underneath, fhrivelling up in drying (r). 

 It is in its greateft beauty in September, when the fructifications 

 are perfected, of a reddifh-brown, and orbicular, on the obtufe 

 ends of the ftalks. It is very foft and tender, and loves to be 

 flickered from cold and rain by other plants, or the projections 

 of the rocks, and therefore is commonly found growing in 

 broad tufts in places not expofed, in fome cavernous part or 

 warm recefs, towards the bottom. 



(p) Mufcus coralloides, faxatilis, cornua CERVI referens. C. R. Pin. p. 361. Litho. 

 bryon coralloides. Column. Echphr. ii. p. 83. Coralloides cornua CERVI referens corni- 

 culis brevioribus. Town. Inft. p. 565. Lichenoides tubulofum cinereum humiie, DAM.S 

 cornua referens. Dill, Giff. p. 203. /?. Linn. Flo. Suec. p. 358. 



fa) Coralloides mollis & tenetior caule bifurcato. 



(r) Coralloides foliolis crenatis Izte virentibus fuperne ; fubtus argenteis, caule molli cy- 

 Jindrico, leviier fetaceo. 



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