CRYPTOGAMIA Al^Omr - 8S5 



Wc pretend not to difpute this matter with anj 

 perfon difpofed to think fo. But as the ftalks 

 • and branchss of this Lich-en, fo far as we have 

 hitherto noticed, Uo generally.; if not cilwaysy 

 preferve their>lhrLibby appearance, being either 

 cylindrical or corripreiTed ; not compofed of a 

 fingle membrane like i\\t 'L. iflandicHs % and as 

 we have feen it in this ftate in full fructifica- 

 tion, we 'ciannot bill! rhirrk ourfelves juftined, if 

 for'no other reafoni, yet for the eafe of the llu- 

 dent only, in givitig it a place among the L. 

 Jruticulefi. 



(ernkula- L. frutlciilbfus^f61id'us' famoiliS^ bmis decllnatis 

 tus 90. ' comprefTis dichotomis, fcutellis plano-convexis 



fungiformibus. (Dillen. mufc.'t: \"j. f. 7,y. bona. 

 Haller. h'tji. n. 1966. /. 47./. \.finefru£l.) 

 Black horned Wra!ck Lichen. Jnglis, 

 ' " Upon the rocks in the Highland mountains in 

 many places, as on Creg-chaillech^ in Breadal- 

 'iy'> lane, on Ben^Lonjond^ on the mountains in Rofs' 



ti' Jbire, and'the ifle of Skyey &c. 



The ftalks «re from half an inch to an inch long, 

 and grow reclined in a fmall thick tuft. They 

 are folid, fmooth, comprefled, dichotomoufly 

 branched, and terminate in fubulated horns or 

 forks, of a dufky blive colour when moift, al- 

 moft black when dry, their fubftance rigid, 

 tough and horny. 



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