Bsi CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 



This fpecies is not defcribed by Linnaus. 



late-virens L. coriaceus repens lobatus obtufus glaber lasre- 

 ^-i. viicns, fubcus avenius, icutellis fulvis. (JDilUn, 



mufc. t. 25, /. 98.) 



Loveiy-green Lichen, with reddifli fliields. Anglis, 



Upon the trunks and roots of trees in moid fliady 

 places not uncommon, and lomctimes upon 

 rocks in fhady and moffy places. 



The leaves are two or three inches long, expanded 

 contiguoufly to the breadth of a man's hand, or 

 more. They are varioufly laciniated, and di- 

 vided into round obtufe crenated lobes at the 

 extremities. Their fubftance is thin, but coria- 

 ceous -, their upper fide fmooth, without pits, 

 and of a fine green colour ; the under fide 

 v/hitiili, or buff-colour'd, imooth at the margins^ 

 but covered every where c!ic with a flight tawny 

 down, mixed v.'ith pale fibrous radicles. 



The fliields are numerous, of various fizes, and 

 graw upoa the diic ot the leaves. At Brft they 

 appear only like fmall tubercles, or papilh, with 

 a point in tlic centre. Afterwards they dilate, 

 and become fome of them i-^d of an inch in di- 

 ameter, of a tawny red colour, furrounded with 

 a greeniili. margin, concave at firfl, but almoft 

 plain when old. 



Such is the ftate of the recent plaat, bur, when 

 dry'd, the leaves change firft to a greenifii afh- 



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