^6 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 



' '^ • ere6l, or perpendiculdr to the plain on which it 



is found. It IS difFufely branched even from 

 I the root, and thefe branches are again fubdi- 



, , _ ,.,';,■ , vidcd into a few fliorter fecondary ones, all of 

 ,. ,. ■' them cylindrical, rigid, and elaftic, and fur- 

 _ . , ,,( , ' rounded with numerous capillary fibres, either 

 ' fimple or flightly branched, and nearly hori- 

 zontal i the whole plant generally of a greenifli 

 afli colour. , . 



, ,!,. ... Sometimes the fummits only of the branches arc 



fibrous or bearded, and the remainder raked. 

 ,^ : , The branches and lateral fibres, when the plant 



_.;;,• becomes old, are covered over, and rendered 



quite rough with numerous farinaceous white 

 tubercles ; but no fhields have yet been difco- 

 vered upon it, which makes it doubtful whether 

 it be not a Icxual variety of the L.foridus here- 

 after defcribed. , .... 

 We have fometimes found a variety of this Lichen 

 of a tapvny colour, but not often. 



"bulpfnus L. fiUmentofus ramofiifimus eredlus faftigiatus 

 ^02. insequali-angulofus. Sp. p/. 162^. (Di/ien. mufc. 



t. 13./. 16, Oeder. dan. t. 226.) 

 Gold wiry .Lichen. Anglh. 

 Upon the truaks of old trees, but not common. 

 We found it once upon the ground, which is 

 fingular, on the craig oi Ailfay a fmall Ifland 

 ■ . ■ ' on the coaft of ^/>y^/>!?. 



it 



