CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 853 



colour, and afterwards to a fufcotis or livid afli- 

 colour, and the fliields to a brown red. 

 This fpecies has efcapcd the notice of Linnaeus. 



glomuliftm. L. coriaceus repens laciniarus glaber, laciniafum 



rus 63. axilhs orbicularibus, fcutellis fulvis e>c glomuiis 



atroviridibus. 



L. laciniatus-^ Hudf. Fl. /^ngl p. 449. 



L. amplijfimus. Scopol. CarnioL edii. 2. «. 1393. (M/- 



chel. gen. t. 46. ord. 17. bona. Dilkn. wufc. t. 2 5. 



Pale blue fcallop'd Lichen, bearing dark green 

 balls. Av.gUs. 

 ■ ' Upon the trunks and roots of trees, in fhady woods, 



but not common. 



; ' The leaves are four or five inches long, procum- 



bent, and contiguous to each other, dilated to- 

 wards the extremities, and widely expanded, 

 for the mofl: part in a circular form. They are 

 varioufly laciniated, and terminated with obtuie 

 crenated lobes. TIic axilLt, or angles of the 

 fegments, ?ire circular, which is a fingular cha- 

 rader. Their fubftance is thick, tough, and co- 

 riaceous ; the furface fmooth, and without pits. 

 Their colour on the upper fide, when frefli, a 

 pale cinereous blue; when dry, a yellowilh white 

 or buff-colour. Their under fide is (lightly 

 downy, and, by reafon of many fibrous radi- 

 cles, a little rough •, when moift or foak'd in 



water. 



