27 o OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



four or more in a group, from two to three inches high, with 

 laciniated folioles at die bafe, and on the lower part; of a lively 

 lea-green above, and filvery underneath. Some of the younger 

 plants are naked, in figure like a horn, and often miflaken for 

 a fpccies of the horned mofs. The more robuft and aged ones 

 are branched and proliferous. It is elegantly drawn in its diffe- 

 rent ftages of growth and variations by Dillenius and Micheli *. 



25. Branched Cornu-copia Cup-Mofs (xj. About the decayed flumps 

 of trees in woods, and moift alpine rocks, frequent. It is two 

 inches high, with .crenated folioles at the bafc, of a light grey. 

 The fructifications appear in the fpring on the points of the fer- 

 ratures of the cup, in the form of frnall round tubercules. 



a.6. The clumfy indented Cup-Mofs (y) is frequent among the erice 

 under Raven* s-bugb-ci-a.g, in winter and in the fpring. The ilalk 



* Lads citatis. 



(x) Mufcus cornucopioides ciiftatus. Boccon. Mus. di Piante. t. 107. & t. 8. p. 21. Li- 

 chen pjxidatus prolifer verrucofus oris tumentibus & nigris. Tourn. Inft. Valll. Dot. Paris, 

 p. 115. Hall. Helv. p. 66. Lichenoides tubulofum cinereum, valde cruftaceum, ramulis 

 brevioribus & crebrioribus ex acetabulis enafcentibus. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 68. n. 26. Coral- 

 loides cornu-copioides incanum, fcyphis criftatis. Dili. Hift. Mufc. p. 94. t. 15. f. 17. 



(y) Lichen pyxidatus teres acetabulis minoribus repandis. Michel, p. 80. Ord. vii. n. 2. 

 t. 41. f. 2. Eft pyxidati adultlor IS ramofa atas. Hall. Hclv. p. 66. Tourn. Inft. p. 549. 

 Paill.Bot. Paris, p. 115. Lichenoides tubulofum minus ramofum, cauliculiscraflioribus difFor- 

 mibus. Ray. Syn. iii. p. 68. n. 22. Corallinamontana, diffbrmis. Ejufd. Syn. ii. App. p. 332. 

 Lichen fcyphipher fimpliciufculus fubventricofus, calycibus dentatis. Linn. Flo. Suec. n. 

 977. Lichen caule fimplici, apice acuto aut calyce turbinato terminatrice. Flo. Lapp. n. 

 433. t. ii. .5. Coralloides craflius fubincanum, calycibus dentatis. DHL Hift. Mufc. 

 p. 95. t. 15. f. 1 8. 



. Lichenoides tubulofum magis rajjofum, maxime diffbrme, Raj. Syn. iii. p. 68. in 

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