OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



20. Small, branched Moff, ivith fcarlet Heads (s). On moift rocks, 

 nnd upon heaths. On the rocks of Tecket. On JBroadpool-common 

 by Raven s-lmgh-cra.g. On Calleley-\i\\\, in great abundance. The 

 {talk is an inch high, fparingly branched. The heads, or fructi- 

 fications, rife in February, of a beautiful fcarlet. 



21. ProTifermis, Cup-Mofs, 'with fcarlet tubercles (t). On dry alpine 

 rocks. On the rocks in Rot be ley-park, near Wallington. The tu- 

 bule or ftalk is an inch high or more, of a grecnifh-grey, and 

 fometimes of a light-grey. The fructifications are elegantly dif- 

 pofed round the edges of the cup, in the form of tubercles, and 

 in its proliferous ftate often entirely efface it. They are of a 

 bright fcarlet. Infufed in lye* they are faid to {hike a purple, 

 fair and durable. It appears in October, and holds its beauty 

 all the winter, till late in the fpring. The fcarlet turns to ZL deep 

 purple in drying. 



22. Thigh- 



(s) Lichen cora'.loides, tubu'ofus, cinereus, minor, parum ramofus, receptaculis florum 

 coccineis. Michel. Ord. vi. p. 8e. n. 15. Hall. Helv. p. 68. Mufcus coralloides apicibus 

 coccineis. Raj. Hift. i. p. 113. Cat. ftirp. Brit. p. 297. Lichenoides coralliforme, api- 

 cibus coccineis. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 68. n. 24. Mufco- fungus montanus, corniculatus, 

 minor, ereflus, apicibus coccineis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 633. n. 2. Coralloides ramulo- 

 i'um, tuberculis coccineis. Dili Hift. Mufc. p. 96. t. 15. f. 19. 



(t) Lichen pyxidatus, (rugofus, prolifer, & non prolifer) acetabulorum oris coccineis & 

 tumentibus. Michel. Ord. viii. p. 82. n. 3. t. 41. f. 3. Et, Lichen pyxidatus prolifer, 

 acetabulis rudibus & minus cavis receptaculis florum coccineis. EJUSD. n. 4. Lichen 

 f forte) pyxidatus acetabulorum oris coccineis non tumentibus. Scheucbz. Itin. ii. p. 136. 

 Lichen pyxidatus prolifer acetabulorum oris coccineis & tumentibus. Hall. Helv. p. 65. 

 Lichen pyxidatus acetabulorum oris coccineis & tumentibus. Vaill. Bot. Paris, t. 21. f. 4. 

 Mufcus pyxioides labellis faturate croceis Bocccn. Mus. di Piante. p. 142. t. 104. Mufcus 

 mu'tiformiter pyxidatus acetabulis coccineis. Pct.n.j^. Plot. Staff. 1.14. f. i. Mufco- 

 fungus pyxidatus calyce altero alteri innato apicibus nonnunquam coccineis. Hift. Oxon. iii. 



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