CRY PTOGAMIA LICHEN KS, <;;> 



gular, buff-orange, with a thickened inflected flexuose border 

 HOOK. Scot. ii. 49. Lichen tartarens, LIGHTF. Scot. 811. WITH. 

 iv. 25. Eng. Bot. t. 156*. DILL. Muse. t. xviii. f. 13. 



Hob. On rocks, not uncommon. 



DILLENIUS tells us that the Welsh use this lichen to dye 

 wool and other articles a brownish-red or claret colour. 

 It is likewise employed for the same purpose by the Scot- 

 tish Highlanders, who call it Corcur. At Glasgow, where 

 it is extensively employed by the manufacturer, it is called 

 Cudbear, a denomination which it has acquired from a 

 corrupt pronunciation of the Christian name of the che- 

 mist (Or CUTHBERT GORDON) who first employed it on 

 a great scale. The greater part is imported from Norway, 

 but in the Highland districts many an industrious peasant 

 gets a living by scraping this lichen with an iron hoop, and 

 sending it to the Glasgow market. When I was, says Dr 

 HOOKER, in the neighbourhood of Fort-Augustus in 1807, 

 a person could earn 1 4s. per week at this work, selling the 

 material at 3s. 4d. the stone of 22 Ib. The fructified spe- 

 cimens are reckoned the best. 



(). L. citrina, crust undefined, thin, cracked when dry, even, 

 pulverulent, sulphur-yellow ; apothecia semi-immersed, brownish 

 or orange-yellow, plane, small, scattered or crowded Ach. Syn. 

 176- MOUG. and NEST., No. 742. 



I fab. On stone walls, near their base, common. 



The plant above described agrees precisely with the exem- 

 plars in MOUG EOT and NESTLER'S work ; and it is too 

 common to admit the supposition that it can have been 

 overlooked by the botanists of this country. I am there- 

 fore inclined to quote, as synonyms, Lee. vitellina, HOOK. 

 &col. ii. 49. Lichen vitellinus, Eng. Bot. t. 1792. L. Jiaci- 

 cans, WITH. iv. 27. 



7. L. murorum, frond adnate, leafy and radiating at the circum- 

 ference, orange-yellow, pulverulent ; apothecia nearly of the co- 

 lour of the frond, becoming plane and convex. HOOK. Scot. ii. 50. 

 Lichen candelarius, /3. LIGHTF. Scot. 811. L. candelarius, WITH. 

 iv. 29. 



Hab. On rocks and walls, in circular, generally smuH 

 patches, frequent. 



