Jltf CKYPTOGAMIA LICHEN ES. 



3. C. gracilis, greenish-brown, smooth, leafy at the base, dicho- 

 tomous or simple, the apices subulate, or dilated into small im- 

 perfect cups toothed on the margin, and tuberculated with dark- 

 brown apothecia HOOK. Scot. ii. 63. Lichen gracilis, WITH. iv. 

 39. LIGHTF. Scot. 873. Eng. Bot. t. 1284. DILL. Muse. t. 14. 

 f. 13. c. D. E. 



Hab. Moors, frequent. 



* * Foliaceous^ with cup-bearing stalks. ( The barren stalky are same- 

 times subulate.} 



4. C. bellidiflora, leafy, ash-grey, smooth, lobed, white and naked 

 beneath ; fruitstalk 1 inch high, thick, attenuated upwards, very 

 rough with foliaceous scales, and terminated with a large scarlet 

 conglomerate tubercle. HOOK. Scot. ii. 64. Lichen bellidiflorus, 

 Eng. Bot. t. 1894. 



Hab. Mountainous heaths. Cheviot, Dr James Thompson. 



5. C. coccifera, leafy, lobed, lobes small, crenate, raised, ash- 

 grey, beneath white and naked ; stalks cylindrical or dilated, 

 rough, often foliaceous, cupped, the fructification scarlet clustered 



tubercles HOOK. Scot. ii. 63. Lichen cocciferus, LIGHT F- Scot. 



886. WITH. iv. 41. Eng. Bot. t. 2051. DILL. Muse. t. 14. 

 f. 7. 



Hub. On the Lammermuirs 7 abundant, and very conspi- 

 cuous by its 



" cups, the darlings of the eye, 



So deep is their vermilion dye." 



6. C. digitata, foliaceous, segments minute, expanded, rounded, 

 crenate, pulverulent beneath, as well as on the cylindrical yellow- 

 green cup-bearing stalks ; cups narrow, small, at length large, 

 proliferous, the rays tipped with the bright scarlet apothecia 

 HOOK. Scot. ii. 63. Lichen digitatus, LIGHTF. Scot. 874. WITH. 

 iv. 42. Eng. Bot. t. 2439. DILL. Muse. t. 15. f. 19. 



Hab. On decayed roots of trees. In the woods about 

 Renton Inn. 



In our specimens, the leaves are stained with a rich o range - 

 vellow on the under surface. 



