<J7o CRYPTOGAMIA AhGJE. 



out of the margins of the fecond, and (o on foi* 

 three or four ftages one above another, the cup^ 

 one while producing tubercles on their margins, 

 another while none, and the (talks fometimes fo- 

 liaceous, and fometimes nor fo. In all theft 

 flates it is figured by Dilknhts, /. 14./. 6. 1. K. 

 L. M. A'iicbel. /. 41. ord. 8./. 7. 8. 



1"he other manner in which it becomes proliferous, 

 is, when fccondary cups arifc out of the centre 

 of the firft, others out of the centre of the fe- 

 cond, and fo on fometimes even to five ftages \ 

 the rim of the cups, in the mean time, being 

 either deflitute of tubercles, or furrounded v/iih 

 (mall fefTile fufcous or blackifli ones. See Bille- 

 nius, t. 14./. 6. D. E. F. G. H. Vail, paris. t. 

 21./. 5. 



A decoflion of this mofs is fometimes given by 

 the vulgar to children to cure the ivhooping cough^ 

 but the good effccls of it are not fupportcd by 

 proper teftimonies. 



Jimhrktus L, fcyphifcr fimplex denticulatus, flipite cylindri- 

 7p* CO. Sf). tl' 1619. (Vail, paris. t.21. f. 6. &' va- 



rietas prolifcra, f. 9. Dill en- mufc. t. i^.f. 8. A. 

 B. C.) 

 Serrated Cup Lichen. Anglis. 

 In moors and heaths with the foregoing. 

 This, in all probability, is only a variety of the 

 laft. The ftalks are whiter than that, and ge- 

 nerally 



