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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGiE. Lichen. 
green, hoary underneath. Stem one to three or four inches high, but 
the more they are branched the shorter they are ; at first grey, at length 
brownish towards the top, and wholly brown when in fruit ; slender, 
hollow, smooth; top slender, except when bearing cups and tubercles, 
simple or branched. Cups small, serrated at the edge. Tubercles on 
the teeth, roundish, reddish brown. Dill. 
(Sta&Vhqrn Cup Lichen. E.) Mountainous and rocky heaths. Leath 
Hill, Surrey. 
L. radia'tus. Tubercles brown: cups unequally toothed, radiated: 
stems tall, cylindrical, a little branched. 
(E. Bot. 1835. E.)— Dill. 15. 16—Fh Ban. 1188. 3— Mich. 41. Ord. 7. 3. 
4. 2— Sckeuchz. It. 1. 5. 3— Vaill. 7. 7. said bp Bill, to be ill done. 
Leaves at the base, sometimes also fixed at the stem, small, finely cut, hoary 
green above, white underneath. Tubes greyish green, about two inches 
high, soft, hollow, simple or branched, thickest upwards, ending in 
shallow cups, with oblong, hollow, horn-shaped spokes on the edge. 
These spokes are not branched, but they sometimes terminate in smaller 
cups, supporting other smaller spokes. Tubercles on pedicles on the 
edges of the cups, or terminating the branches, reddish brown. Dill. 
(Radiated Cup Lichen. E.) Enfield Chase, Middlesex. Dill. 
L. ventrjco'sus. Tubercles brown: cups toothed: stems swollen, 
whole plant hoary and woolly. 
Bill. 15. 17. 
Stem nearly cylindrical, expanding into a cup, which branches out into a 
number of sub-divisions, terminating in their turn in other cups, 
divided into teeth, and tipt with brown tubercles. Growing in clusters. 
Stems upright, stiff, thinnest at bottom, swelling at top into a cup, which 
branches out into numerous rays or spokes bearing other cups. Plant 
about two inches high, covered with a hoary wool. Cups on the branches 
bearing small brownish tubercles in the spring. Leaves small, scolloped, 
hoary. Dill. 
(Hoary Ventricose Lichen. E.) On rotten wood, mostly in woods. 
Dill. 
L. defor'mis. Tubercles reddish: cups toothed: stem seldom branched, 
swollen. 
(E. Bot. 1394. E.)—Fl. Lapp. 11. 5— Mich. 41. Ord. 7. 1-Bill. 15. 18. 
Stem upright, sometimes crooked, thick as a goose quill, sometimes with one 
or two branches, thickest up wards, ending in small shallow cups, edged with 
four, five or more teeth. Colour dirty grey green. Surface mealy and 
woolly, often incrusted with crisp foliage. Tubercles small, reddish. 
Leaves small, cut, hoary, grey on the lower part of the stem. Dill. 
(Clumsy Indented Cup Lichen. Cenomyce deformis . Achar. Hook. E.) 
On rotten wood, mostly in woods. Dill, and heaths. Relh. 
L. filifor'mis. Tubercles small red Astern pale, grey, simple, slender : 
leaves fine green, white underneath. 
(E. Bot. 2028. E.)—Bill. 14. 10— Mich. 41. 6—Vaill. 26. 10. 
Leaves compact, spread on the ground, variously cut, segments rather raised, 
fine green above, white underneath, rather thick, stiffish, large for the 
size of the plant and numerous, by which, and by the smallness of the 
cups, it may be readily distinguished. Cups in the winter grey white, in 
