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7. C. pyxidata, foliaceous, irregularly lobed, Ibbes somewhat 

 imbricate, crenate, ash-grey, granular, beneath white; stalks 

 cyathiform, rough, the margin of the cup entire or proliferous, 

 with brown fructification. HOOK. Scot. ii. 62. Lichen pyxidatus, 

 LIGHTF. Scot. 869. WITH. iv. 38. Eng. Bot. t. 1393. DILL. 

 Muse. t. xiv. f. 6. 



Hab. On the ground, in heathy places, gravelly banks, and 

 on the sides of earthen dikes, very common. 



" The powder of this lichen," says GERARDE, " given to 

 children in any liquor for certaine dayes together, is a 

 most certaine remedie against that perrillous malady called 

 the chincough." 



8. C. fimbriata, foliacebus, irregularly lobed, lobes crenate, ash . 

 grey, white beneath ; stalks pulverulent, rough, cylindrical, ex- 

 panding into a cup, the margins of which are toothed or deeply 



jagged HOOK. Scot. ii. 62. Lichen fimbriatus, LIGHTF. Scot. 870. 



WITH. iv. 39. Eng. Bot. t. 2438. DILL. Muse. t. xiv. f. 8- 



Hab. Gravelly banks on heathy places, frequent. 



This is considered by many, as it seems to me very properly, 

 a variety of the preceding. 



54. SPHjEROPHORON. 



1. S. coralloides, stem dichotomous, smooth, branches very short, 

 forked, clustered ; apothecia globose, smooth HOOK. Scot. ii. 67. 

 Lichen globiferus, LIGHTF. Scot. 887. WITH. iv. 43. DILL. 

 Muse. t. xvii. f. 35. 



Hab. On moss grown rocks. Murton Craigs* Penman- 

 shiel Wood, &c. 



2. S. fragile, coralloid, csespitose, dichotomous, greyish and 

 rough ; apothecia somewhat warted.-^-HooK. Scot. ii. 67. GREV. 

 Fl. Edin. 347- t. iii. f. 16. Lichen fragilis, LIGHTF, Scot. 888. 

 WITH. iv. 43. 



Hab. Similar places to the preceding. 



The Sph. coralloides has a distinct stem, which is branched in 

 a dichotomous manner, beset on all sides and at the sum- 

 mits with clusters of slender short patent forked branch - 

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