90 Rev. T. Salwey : List of the scarce Lichens found 
IX.—A List of the scarcer amongst the Lichens which are found 
in the neighbourhood of Oswestry and Ludlow, with occasional 
observations upon some of them. By the Rey. T. Sarwey*. 
As a study of the Lichens is confessedly one of the greatest 
difficulties the botanist has to contend with, and as Sowerby’s 
‘English Botany’ and the ‘ Lichenographia Britannica’ (so far 
as this last extends), the principal works in our language which 
give any detailed description of them, are in the hands of few, I 
have thought that observations upon some of the least common 
of such Lichens as are found in this part of England may be 
acceptable to those who are entering upon the study of them. 
Having already made some remarks upon the Welsh Lichens 
in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Nat. History,’ vol. xii. pp. 25, 
260, I have enumerated in the present list such only as I have 
met with out of the Principality, and these more particularly such 
as are found in the neighbourhood of Oswestry and Ludlow, so 
that the following may be regarded almost as a list amongst the 
scarcer of the Lichens of Shropshire, the great majority of the 
habitats being such as are confined to this county. The de- 
scriptions of the several species in the ‘ English Flora’ are much 
too concise to enable the student, without occasional help from 
some experienced botanist, to make them out. Dr. Taylor in the 
‘ Flora Hibernica’ has given much more ample details of such as 
he describes, and has added several new species, some of which 
are still to be discovered on this side of the Channel, but his work 
necessarily embraces such only as are found in Ireland. It is 
much to be regretted that we have as yet no monograph of the 
Lichens, and till some one competent to undertake so arduous a 
task shall have supplied this desideratum, any occasional obser- 
vations upon them may perhaps meet with acceptance at the 
hands of those who are desirous of studying this branch of botany. 
It is only as a help to such, and not under the presumption 
that I am capable of throwing much light upon the subject, that 
I have ventured to send to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 
the following list of Lichens, with such observations wpon some 
of them as a long acquaintance with, rather than an accurate 
knowledge of them, has led me to form. If my observations 
should be the means of removing any difficulties in the way of a 
single inquirer mto this branch of botany, my end will be fully 
answered. 
Oswestry, March 28, 1845. 
Beomyces anomalus. Craigforda and Pentregaer in the parish of 
Oswestry. 
* Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, June 12, 1845. 
