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or tubule is an inch and a half long, with laciniated folioles at 

 the bottom, and on the lower part. It is firft erect, and after- 

 wards incurvated, of the thicknefs of a common writing-quill, 

 ilmple, and fome with one or two branches, {lender towards the 

 bafe, and more robuil upwards, with foliaceous excrcfcenccs, of 

 a dull grey, with a greenifh caft. 



27. The tall, Jlcnder^ brown, indented, Cnp-Mofs (z), is not un fre- 

 quent on the rocks by Cr^-lake, many of them together in a 

 group. It is two inches high, {lender, and of a bright mining 

 brown. The denticles of the ferratures of the cup turn up, and 

 become pedicles to fuftain the tubercles or fructifications, which 

 are of a reddifh-brown and entirely efface it. 



28. There is a VARIETY of it at the roots of the erica about the 

 rocks at Raven s-hugb-crag, with incurvated {pinnules or branches, 

 rifing towards the middle of the flalks. The cups are oblong, 

 deep, and moderately laciniated at the edges, fomewhat refem- 

 bling the fockets of a candleflick ; as does the whole plant a 

 branched one, in miniature (a). 



(z) Lichen pyxidatus & corniculatus ramofus a'pinus e fufco-cinereus, pyxidulis crenatis. 

 Michel, p. 81. Ord. vii. n. 9. t. 41. f. 5. ttomen, nan autem Icon, CL. HALL, judice, loco 

 infra cit. fub. n. 30. 1.41. f. 5. Lichen pyxidatus, ramofus, acetabulis fimbriatis. EjufJ. 

 ib. n. 10. Town. Inft. p. 545. Valll. Bot. Paris. Mufco-fungus pyxidatus gracilior ramo- 

 fus, calycibus ferratis. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 362. f. 15. t. 7. f. 6. Lichenoides pyxidatum 

 cinereum elatius, ramulis pyxidatim dcfinentibus. Rij. Syn. iii. p. 69. n. 32. Lichen 

 fcyphifer ramofus denticulatus filiform'.s. Linn. Fb. Suec. n. 975. CoralloiJes fcyphiforme 

 ferratum elatius, cauliculis gracilibus glabris. Dill. Hift. Mufc. p. 88. t. 14. f. 13. 



(a) Coralloides montanum elatius & ramofius, e fufco glabro, calycibus oblongis leviter 

 laciniatis. 



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