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forms them into a genus, by the name of coralloides ; 
to which he has connected fome plants, properly of 
the fungus tribe. In this diftindtion he is followed 
by Dr. Boerhaave in his Index alter P lantarum. 
Dr. Dillenius firft called them lichenoides , in the 
catalogue of plants growing about Gieffen, chudng 
to retain the word lichen to the liverwort of the 
fhops. Under this name however, in this work, he 
does not comprehend the ufnece, or hairy tree- modes, 
but refers them to the conferva, adding the epithet 
arborea to each fpecies, to diftinguifh them from the 
water kinds. He enumerates upwards of fixty fpe- 
cies of lichenoides , but has applied few or no fyno- 
nyms to them. 
Under the fame generic term he has introduced 
them into the third edition of Ray’s Synopfis of 
Britifh Plants, taking in the ufnea, and recounting 
upwards of ninety fpecies, all found fpontaneoudy 
growing in England. Many of thefe are undoubtedly 
only varieties. They are in this work very naturally 
divided into feveral orders and fubdivilions, for the 
greater eafe of diftinguifhing them, as follows . 
I caulifera 
f 
b 
j, Capillacea et non tubuhfa fcutellata, 
C a. Solida et non tubuhfa, 
2. Coralliformia tubcrculofa flerumaut. ^ 7 'ubuloja, 
, Pyxidata. 
Fungiformia. 
I T , Mere cruft acea. 
r a. Subftantia ge- 
2. Cruft a foliofa fcutellata feu foliiz 3 latinofte. 
fcutellatit arBe adnafcentibus - J b. Subftantia da- 
1 rioris. 
3. Foli is magis liberis nec C a. Scutel/atis et tuberculatis , 
, tarn arBe adnafcentibus c b. Peltatis. 
M. Vaillant, in the Botanicon Parifienfe , retains 
Tournefort’s names. Many of thefe lichens, as well 
as other modes, are accurately reprefented in the 
eleeant tables, which adorn that work. Dr. Haller 
b tells 
