872 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



This, like the crher fpecies, lias fometimes proV:- 

 ferous margins. 



We believe this to be a youpg variety of the L- 

 cccciferus, and are pretty certain that it Ibme- 

 times changes into thp L. cornucGpioides. 



dciccr'us L. fohis fuberedtis lat'iniatis cartilagineis fcyphife- 



78. ris, fcyi'.! -s primi^m breriffimis ccni^is {implicj- 



bus, deinde proliferis tubcrcuhs ni-ris. h.folia- 



ceus. Hudf. hi. Avg. p. 45;, {Dillen. t. 14. f. 12. 



yl. E.C.'D) 



Elk's ] iorii Lichen. Anglis. 



Upon heaths and mountains. 



The leaves arc large for the fize of the cup?, anc^ 

 nearly erect, frnooth on both fides, of a tough 

 cartilaginons fubftance, plain, but the edges a 

 Jittle infledted, either grey or yellowiili green on 

 the upper fide, but white underneath, and va- 

 rioufiv divided io as to iefemble in good mea- 

 fure an elk's horns. 



The little tubular ci-ps arife out of the middle and 

 margins of the leaves, very fliort and invertedly 

 conica;, at firft v/ith fimple or flightly crenatcd 

 rins. This is the vvinter appearance of this 

 Lichen. 



In the fummcr it puts on a different afpcfl. The 

 margins of the leaves vanifli, and the firmer 

 central partj only, or (l-ieleton of them, remains 

 cf a tough giuey fubllance, with here and there 



a few 



