CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 845 



with thick, fwelling, dark, fufcous, downy 

 ve.ns, which unite at the bafe of the leaf. 

 The fhields grow out of the margin of the leaf, 

 fcfTiICj horizontal, plain, circular, and of a 

 rcddifli black colour. 



caninus '•7. L- coriaceus repens lobatus obtufus planus, fubtus 



venofus villofus, pelta marginali afcendente, Sp. 



pi. 1616. {M-orh. hiji. 3. />. 6^1. fe£l. ic,. t. y.f. 



I. VctiL Paris. /. 21/. 16. DUlen, mufc. t. 27. /. 



102. opt.) 



Afn-colour'd ground L!ver^7ort, or Lichen. Anglis. 



li grows upon the ground aniongft mofs, at the 

 roots of trees in Ihady woods, and alio in heaths 

 and iloney places fiequcnt. 



The icavcs are large, gradually dilated towards the 

 extremities, and divided into roundilh elevated 

 lobes. Their upper fide, in dry weather, is afli- 

 colour'd, in rainy weather of a dull tulcous 

 green colour -, their under fide white and hoary, 

 having many thick downy nerves, from wr.ich 

 dcicend numerous long white pencil-like radi- 

 cles. 



The -peUte, or fhields, grow at the extremities of 

 the elevated lobes, fhap'd like the human nail, 

 of a roundilh oval form, convex above, con- 

 cave beneath ; of a chocolate colour on the up- 

 per fide, and the fame colour as the leaves on 

 the under. 



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