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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG^. Lichen 
leaves largest, tiled, neatly scolloped and curled, with many clefts. 
Colour greenish, glaucous, or yellowish when growing on wood. Surface 
minutely dotted with black, or rough with very minute cylindrical sub¬ 
stances. Saucers in the centre, crowded, large, irregular, red brown or 
black. Hoffman. Weis’s and Lightfoot’s descriptions good. Leaves 
usually covered with numerous granulations like L. physodes , and others 
of this division. Saucers, the small ones cup-shaped and regular, the 
large ones much and variously deformed, in age the brown part dropping 
out, leaving the exterior cup which is then of the same colour with the 
leaves, except that the inside is rather greener. Mr. Woodward. Leaves 
disposed in a circular form, the outer ones the largest, elegantly scol¬ 
loped, laid like tiles one over another, yellow green, black on the under 
side. Saucers reddish brown, edged with yellow green. Dill. 
(Greenish Chesnut-shielded Lichen. L. conspersus. Achar. Prod. E. 
Dot. Parmelia conspersa. Achar. Syn. Hook. E.) Rocks, walls, large 
stones, and trunks of trees. P. Jan.—Dec. 
L. CARNO'sus. Saucers reddish brown, raised, thick; leaves brown 
green, mealy at the edge, rounded, ragged, greatly crowded, 
nearly upright. 
(E. Boi. 1684. E .)—Dicks. 6. 7. 
Leaves minute, brownish green, curling when dry. Saucers rather remote, 
some connected, rising from between and somewhat higher than the 
leaves, fleshy, smooth, paler underneath. Dicks. 
(Little Fleshy-shielded Lichen. Lecanora carnosa. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Rocks on the mountains of Scotland. Rocks on the side of the hill about 
fifty yards above Garthmeilio, the seat of R. W. Wynne, Esq. Denbighsh. 
Mr. Griffith. 
L. saxat'ilis. Saucers chesnut colour: leaves glaucous, indented, 
pitted, rough. 
(E. Bot. 603. E.)— Hojfrn. Enum.16. 1— Jdcq. Coll. iv. 20. 2— Bill. 24. 83— 
Vaill. 21. 1— H. Ox. xv. 7. roiv 4. 6. 
Lightfoot’s description good. The mealy tubercles found on the old and 
saucer-bearing plants as well as on the younger. Mr. Woodward. Cir¬ 
cular when young, and from one-half to one inch diameter. Leaves short, 
segments broad, blunt, scolloped and indented at the ends ; pitted on the 
upper surface, glaucous green ; black and fibrous underneath ; sometimes 
smooth though pitted; sometimes rough, with flat mealy eminences. 
Saucers seldom found, reddish or blackish, the border the colour of the 
leaves. Dill. 
(Grey Stone Lichen. Scotch. Staneraw. Parmelia saxaUUs. Achar. 
Hook. E.) Stones, rocks, and trunks of trees. P. Jan.—Dec.* 
Var. 2. Leaves sometimes in the winter acquiring a reddish tinge, in every 
other respect resembling the preceding. Dill. 
L. ful'vus. Saucers tawny red, bordered ; foliage tawny red; leaves 
tiled, many cleft; distorted. 
Bill. 24. 68. 
Plant very small; saucers very small. Dill. 
(Small Tawney Lichen. E.) On rocks in Cornwall and Scotland. Dicks, 
iii. 16. (On rocks near Whitburn, Sunderland, &c. and on calcareous 
stones in Teesdale Forest. Mr. Winch. E.) 
• It is used by the inhabitants of the North to dye purple. 
