CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. £91 



From what we obferved of his fpecimens at Ox- 

 fordy we are difpofed to think that this and the 

 Li. articulatus. Lin. are pnly varieties of on« 

 "^ another. 



Its quality is aftringent, lil^e the preceding. When 

 fleep'd for fome time in water it acquires an 

 orange colour, and, according to DillemuSy is 

 ufed in Penjylvan^a to dye wi?h that colour. 



juhatus 96. L. filamcntofus pendulus, axillis compreflis. Sp.pl. 

 1622. (Dillen. mujc. /. 12./. 7.) 



Blacivilh Mane Lichen. JngUs. 



Upon rocks not unfrequent, and fometimes upon 

 the brariches of old trees. 



The flalks, 01: rather filaments, of which this is 

 compofed, vary from three inches to a foot in 

 length, are very {]ender, fmooth, cylindrical, 

 branched, pendulous when long enough, ge- 

 nerally of a mixed colour, cinereous at the bale, 

 but elfewhere of a dark fufcous green, verging 

 to black. The iargeft of them are a little com- 

 prcfs'd, efpeqially 4t thq angles of ramification, 

 greatly entangled with one another, and termi- 

 nated with fine cylindrical capillary fibres, fome- 

 times ered, fornetimes curled, and contorted. 

 Their fubftance firm and elaftic. 



The only fruftifications yet feen are very fmall, 



plain, farinaceous warts, fprinkled here and 



there on the fides of the filaments, of a yel- 



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