fcaYPTOGAMIA ALGM. '8^^ 



They are tubular, grey, or afh-colour'd at the 

 bafe with a tinge of brown, but fufcous at the 

 top. .'■'.■', "' . , 



The old plants are cithei* of a grey brown coloui-, 

 or totally brown, rigid and branched, the 

 branches irregular, greatly diftorted, and befet 

 here and thei*e with innocent fpines, fome eredt 

 and fome recurved. The branches, when young, 

 generally end in two or three fhort forks j when 

 old frequently in fingle fpines. 



The tubercles are of a chocolate colour, and grow 

 on the fummits of the branches. Sometimes 

 thefe fummits open, dilate, and become pal- 

 mated, each fegment of the divifion terminated 

 with a tubercle. - 



It varies from one to three inches in height, and, 

 fo fat- as we have bbferved, is deftitvite of leaves. 



hiffidus 89 L. fruticulofus folidus ramofifllmus, ramis divari- 

 catis fubcomprcfTis glabris fpinulofis, angulis ob- 

 tufis. (Dillen. mufc. t. 17./. 31. A. B,) an varie- 

 tas L. iflandici ? Lin. 



Little brown prickly Lichen. Anglis, 

 Upon the Highland mountains not uncommon, as 

 on Creg'cbailkcb, in Breadalbane^ &c. Mr, Tal- , 

 den gathered it in the Lowlands, upon a hill 

 called Scrape^ near Ne'W-PoJfo. 

 It is about an inch high, and grows in thick, en- 

 tangled tufts, or clufters, of a dark brown and 



fometimcs 

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