CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^-. Sz^ 



Tbis is figured by Biiknius, Hift. rniifc. t. 20. f. 

 46. and IS made a diftinft Ipccies by Scopoli in 

 his Fl. CarnioL No. 1406, under the nauric of 

 L. tenelius. 



ijlmduusj^l L. foliaceus afcendens laciniatus, marginlbus cle- 

 vatis ciliatis. Sp. pi. 1611. (Dillen. mufc. t. z)*,. 

 f. III. y f^r. w//7«r /. 28. /. 112. Oeder. 11, 

 Dan. t. 155. opt.) 



Eatable Iceland Lichen. Eryngo-Ieav'd Lichen. 



Anglis. 



Ic grows upon the ground on many mountains, 



both in the highlands and lowlands, as on the 



Tentland hills, on a hill called Scrape^ near Nr^- 



Pojoy on Creg-chaiHech, in Breadalbane, &c. 



It confifts of nearly rreft leaves, about two inches 



high, of a ftiff but flexible fubftance when dry, 



foft and pliant when moift, yariouHy divided, 



' without order, into broad diftant fpgmenrs, bi- 



' ' "■ fid or tri fid at the extrerrsities. The upjier ov 



' - interior furf ace of the leaves is concave, chtf- 



liut-colour'd, fmooth, and fhining, but red at 



■ ' - -'■■'- . "■' " their bafc ; the under or exterior furface is 



fmooth and whirifh, a little pitted, and fpiinklrd 



; with very minute bl:?rk warts. The margin of 



, ' • • the leaves, and all the fegmcncs from bott>)m 



;. ' .. 10 top, arc ciliated v/irh fmall, (liorc, ftiff, liajr- 



like fpinules, of a datk chefnut coi )ur, turning 



towards the upper fide. 



The fhields arc very rarely produced. They grow 



out- 



