8©8 CRYPTOGAMIA AhG/E. 



olive and white or grey, in the fame maaner a^ 

 in the border of the AGARICUS verficolor. 



In the centre of the circle are many contiguous 

 pale, wrinkled tubercles, covered with a fmooth 

 coat or pellicle •, which pellicle burlls, and dif- 

 covers an irregular excavated fliield, containing 

 a white ppwder. Refides thefe tubercles there 

 are numerous cracks which run in lines from the 

 centre of the cru(l tovvards the circumference. 



Whether this and the preceding are dillinsSt fpecies, 

 or only different kY.cs, of the fame fpecies, is a 

 matter of fome doubt. 



coralliniiS\6 L. Icprofus ramofus teres faiciculatus f^ftigiatus 

 corfertinimus albus. Syji. Nat. edit. 13. p. 805. 

 (Dilkn. mufc. t. ij.f. 'ifi.fmnlis^jedvix eadcm.) 

 Coralline Lichen. Anglis. 



Upon the Highland rocks, as about Finlarigy in 

 Breadalbane^ &c. Mr. Stuart. We received the 

 fame alfo from Dr. Bur^,-Js, of Kirkmicbaek in 

 Dunifriejhire. 

 At firll view this appears to be only a white tar- 

 tareous cruft, about i-fth of an inch thick, 

 with an unequal furface, form'd into knobs or 

 buttons; but, being broken, and examined with 

 a microfcope, it is fouiid to confift of compare 

 bundles of fhort, round, Honey, branched, co- 

 ral like fibres, the branches all obtufe and even 

 at the top, without tubercles. 



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