S^o CRYPTOGAMIA ALG/S. 



crimliis 6S, L. um'oiiicatus n^arg'ir.e crinitiis, peltis nigris con- 

 cir.natis iubpedunculatis. i^Dilkn. mufc. t 29./. 

 ti6. A L. cpL Oed. dan. /. 471./, j, 2J an L, 

 ■probofcidcus ? Lin. 



Frizled Hair-button Lichen, 



Upon the rocks on the highland mountains not un- 

 comn-ion, as on Goat field in the ifle of Arran^ 

 on the mountains of BreadalbanCy Ben-Nevis in 

 hochaher^ Sic. 



This generally confifts of a fingle leaf, about an 

 inch in dianKter, deeply laciniated -, or of ie- 

 veral leaves, united together by an umbilical 

 cord in the centre, on the under fide. Their 

 fubfl^Tnce is Pciff, and like parchment, and their 

 edges fringed or ciliared, more or Icis, with fim- 

 pie and branched rigid hairs, of a blackifh co- 

 lour. Their upper fide is of a black grey co- 

 lour, a little concave, the margins bemg ele- 

 vated. The under fide is fmooth, buff-colour'd 

 about the centre, but of a black or fmoky grey 

 colour about the margins. 



Tba pelLe, or fr/elds, are black, fupported ori 

 very fhort pedt^ncles, and curioufly form'd. 

 They are about the fize of a pin's head, their 

 jurface ibmetirnes plain, and fometimes convex, 

 appearing as if compofed of a horfe-hair, laid 

 Sometimes in concentric circles, and other times 

 in curled fpirals, fo as to refemble, according to 

 Dilienius, a horfe-hair button. 



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