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countrymen Gerard: and Parkinfon, and their co- 
temporaries, as they wrote before the time that ge- 
nericai characters in botany were in ufe, included 
thefe - lichens among the other herbaceous modes, 
under the general name of mufcus ; adding to the 
name in general fome epithet defcriptive of its form, 
place of growth, or fuppofed virtue. 
Mr. Ray, both in his Hidorv of Plants, and in 
the Supplement, as he was ulually averfe to the 
forming of new names, has interfperfed them among 
other modes, under the character of mufci fteriles 
feu afpermi , retaining the fynonyms of the two Bau- 
hines, Gerard, and Parkinfon, to the general fpecies. 
Dr. Morifon feems to have been the firft, who fe- 
parated them intirely from the herbaceous modes ; 
and, from the analogy he fuppofed they had with the 
fungus tribe, formed them into a genus, under the 
name of muf co-fungus. He enumerates fifty fpecies 
and upwards under this term in the Hiforia Oxoni - 
e?ifis, and has divided them into five orders, accord- 
ing to their different appearances, as follows : 
1. Mufco-fungi e terra prominentes^ latiores. y. 
2. Mufco-fungi pixidati. n. 
3. Mufco-fungi corniculati. 26. 
4. Mufco-fungi cruflce modo adnafcentes. 37. 
5. Mufco-fungi corticibus arborum dependent es. 53. 
Table the 7th of his 15 th feCtion exhibits feveral 
good figures of fome of thefe lichens. 
Tournefort was the firft, who adapted the generi- 
cal term lichen to them ; but it was in confequence 
of his joining them to the lichen of the (hops. He 
has however excluded the coralline -modes, and 
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