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from the hollow of the tubular part below. These tubes are of a light 
grey colour ; sometimes mealy. Dill. 
(Common Cup Lichen. Cenomycepyxidata. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Yar. 2. Cups proliferous from the centre. 
Dill. 14. 6. D. to II — Vaill. 21. 5— Walc.f. 3. 
Cups sometimes rising one out of the other to five stages, and sometimes 
with small sitting brown or blackish tubercles. Lightf. 
Var. 3. Cups proliferous from the edge. 
Vaill. 21. 9— Dill. 14. 6. I. — Wale. f. 4— II. Ox. 15. 7. 4. p. 634— Mich. 41. 
7 and 8. 
Cups rising sometimes to four stages. Stalks sometimes leafy. Lightf. Fre¬ 
quently covered with much greenish meal, and a leafy crust, but the base 
is only a greenish crust, not leafy. Dill. 
Var. 4. Cups proliferous, with tubercles. 
Vaill. 21. 11— Dill. 14. 6. C. K. L. M. 
L. tuberculatus. Relh. n. 879. Heaths and such like dry places, on stones 
and trunks pf trees covered with a thin coat of soil. Dill. Woods and 
walls. Relh. Heaths, woods, banks, and rocks, and about the roots of 
old trees. P. Jan.—Dec.*' 
L. fimbria'tus. Tubercles brown, small, fixed to the indented edge of 
the cup : stem cylindrical. 
E. Bot. 2438— Dill. 14. 8. A. B. — Hap. iii. Lichen 2. a and c — Mich. 41. Ord. 
8. 5 and 4— Vaill. 21. G—Mich 41. Ord 8. 4. 
Stems slender. Tubercles and cups small, the latter finely serrated at the 
edge. Leaves lying on the ground, small, variously cut, grey green, less 
grey than the cups. Tubercles small, brown, fixed to the little teeth of 
the cup, not commonly occurring. Dill. 
(Pito liferous Ground Lichen. Cenomyce jimbriata. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Var. 2. Proliferous from the serrated edge of the cup: sometimes to 
three stages. 
Dill. 14. 8. C. and Hap. iii. Lichen , 2— Vaill. 21. 9. 
Moors, heaths, dry pastures, common. P. Jan.—Dec. 
It is generally suspected that this is only another variety of the L. pyxi - 
datus. 
Var. 3. Dill. 15. 20. 
Leaves at the base small, scolloped, rather hoary. Stems half to one and a 
half inch high, slender, greyish, smooth, or with a leafy greenish crust. 
Tubercles terminating, generally on a broad base somewhat resembling a 
cup,small, roundish, brown; black when dried. Dill. Woolwich-heath. Dill. 
L. gra'cilis. Tubercles reddish brown, cups finely serrated, stems 
grey, changing to brown, forked, branched. 
{E. Bot. 1284. E.)— Dill. 14. 13— II. Ox. xv. 7 row 3. 6. p 632— Mich. 41. 
Ord. 7. 5. 
Stem in some plants tapering to a point, mothers terminated by a cup tipt 
with tubercles. Linn. Leaves at the base numerous, deeply cut, grey 
* (Emetic in infusion ; used as a specific in hooping cough. Gray. E.) 
