CRYPTOGAMIA ALCL^. &09 



^icetcrum L. Jf-profus candidus, tubt-rculis incarr.-tis. Sp. pi. 

 ip 1608. {Mich, ren, t. ^^. Ordo 35. Ddlcn. miijci. 



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Fkfli-colour'd Mufhroom Lichen. Jn^'is. 



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Upon the ground in heaths, upon the IkL-s of peat- 

 bog-;, gravel-pits, and on banks. 

 The ground of this Lichen is a th.n, vvide fpread- 

 ing, granuhited, leprous crull:, ol a grcenilli 

 afn-colour, turning whirc in the Spring, out of 

 which arife numerous convex lleili-colour'd tu- 

 bercles, fuppoitcd on fuort pedicles, like little 

 fi<ngi- 1 he pedicles are grooved, fomewhac 

 thick, \vhi;i;h, and about i-6tii of an inch higli, 

 otten divided r.t the top, and ilipporting fevcral 

 tubercles. 

 Q, A variety or this (arcording to Liri-n^ius) having 

 the fame kind of crull, but Mat, Iciliie lliieids, 

 initead of pedunculated tubercles, frequently 

 occurs. It is rigured in Ocder'sh'L /.V;? ;. 472. 

 /. 4. This deierves better co be diliinrruifh-rj 

 as a ipec:es, according to our uidgnj-iu, than 

 the following. 



hyjfcides 18 L- leprofo-farlnaceus, pekis tlipitati^ fiibglobons. 

 Un. mcntijs. frhna, p. i j^-^. S_^,L ;uM. edit. 

 13. p. S05. {mien, ruufc. t, 14 ;'. 4. o' a.; L. 

 ri'.fus. Hud. H. Jnr. p, 4^^.. 



Brown Muilirooin Lichen. ylK'^lh. 



It grows upon rocks, old wails, and ionrorinsrs i-p- 

 on the ground- 



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