CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



The frudifications grow on the fummits of th^ 

 flalks and branches, like plano-convex (hields, 

 of a black-brown colour, their margins fome- 

 times entire, and fometimes befet with a few 

 fpines. Thefe Ihieldb are at firfl (lightly con- 

 cave, afterwards plain, and, laftly, convex. 

 ii; • The extremities of the branches in the fame plant, 

 - if viewed through a microfcope, often appear 



' i - a little rough and tuberculous. 



This Lichen is, without doubt, a diftinft fpecies, 

 ' ' ' though unnoticed by Linnaus. 



pa/chalisgj L. fruticulofus folidus, tedus foliolis cruftacets. 



Sp.pl. iCii. (Moris, bifi. III. p. 6^3- f. 15. i- 



c' '■:;.. y,f. 12. Pet. ntuf. t. 6^. f. 7. Loes. Prufs. 168. 



• /. 48. Dillen. mujc. t. 17./. 33. opt. Oed. Dan, t. 



1^1, bona.) 

 (Crifpcd warty alpine Lichen. AngliS' 

 ' Upon the rocks on all the Highland mpuntains 



-'\:.'<:v frequent, 'v .H -io ?.r. ..^•-^ :'"r • v- , 

 ' The ftalks are woody, cylindrical, and varioudy 



branched, from one to two inches high, cover'd 

 tVawA ■' over with ckifters of whitiili or blue-grey cruf- 

 "• '•' taceous warts, or rather fmall granulated leaves. 



\' '' The tubercles grow on the fummits of the branches, 

 "• ''■ ' and on the warty leaves, and appear like fmall 



brown fmooth fleihy fungi^ either fingle or in 



clufters, and which turn black in decay. 



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