84 WESTBOTHLAND. 



ceous Bjjssus, consisting as it were of a 

 white rough brittle membrane, with white 

 grains scattered over it*. 



On the sandj heaths among the per- 

 forated Lichen [uncialin) grew another kind 

 much resembhng it, but as thick as the 

 nnger, snovz-white, and with more copious 

 and dense entangled branches, which, not 

 having been hitherto described, I denomi- 

 nated Coralloides ramosissimiwi perfora- 

 tum, ramis implexis, niveum f. There was 

 also an elegant cup-moss, (L. cocciferus,) 

 repeatedly proliferous from the centre of 

 its cups, two or more cups originating to- 

 gether from one centre, all over of a grey 

 hue, except the scarlet tubercles M'hich 

 bordered the uppermost cups. Every 

 where in the road grew the beforemen- 



* From the above description, this is very hkely to 

 have been the Lichen lysso'ides, Engl. Bot. v. 6. 

 t. 3 7-i, in its early state, when it has exactly the 

 appearance Linnjeus mentions. 



t By the description and sketch in the manuscript, 

 this seems a variety of L. ratigijerinus. 



