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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGiE. Lichen 
minute, numerous on the extreme branches. Tubercles like saucers, 
single or crowded, of a brown colour, are scattered over different parts of 
the plant. From one to four inches high. Hoffman. Woody at the 
base,, fixed like sea weeds to the rocks. Stems tough, woody, variously 
branched, zigzag, one to two inches high. Stems incrusted, sometimes 
naked, especially in the lower part of the older plants. Branches gene¬ 
rally incrusted with small granulations. Tubercles single, or in clusters, 
round, red brown, smooth. Dill. 
(Crisp Incrusted Lichen. Stereocaulon paschale. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Upon rocks on high mountains. Near Ambleside, Cumberland. Dr. J. E. 
Smith. In the mountainous parts of Dartmoor, Devonshire. Mr. New¬ 
berry. P. Jan.—Dec.* 
L. spino'sus. Tubercles brown red, numerous, terminating; plant 
hollow, much branched, branches thorn-like. 
Dill. 1G. 25— Mich. 40. 5 and 3— Hag. 2. 11— Col. Ecphr. ii. 83. 1— 
Park. 1310. 9. 
Stem short. Branches numerous, wide spreading, short, hollow, ployen at 
the end, greenish, white within. Col. Ecphr. Tubercles numerous, ter¬ 
minating, brown red. Leaves none. Dill. Branches like the horns of a 
stag. Forms the connecting link between L. uncialis and L. subidatus. 
Huds. . 
(Branched Thorn-like Lichen. Cenomyce racemosa. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Barren and mountainous places. Dill. 
L. papilla'ilia. Tubercles flesh-coloured, terminating; plant hollow, 
whitish, leafless; branches few, very short, blunt. 
(E. Bot. 907. E.)—Jacq. Coll. iii. 3. 2— Dill. 16. 28. 
Hardly half an inch high. Stems slender, white, smooth, unequal, with 
here and there a knot, as if jointed. Branches very short, terminating, 
ending like the top of a double tooth. Crust cracked. Dill. (Round, 
brown, solitary little tubercles terminate each stem. E. Bot. 
Papillary Lichen. E.) Heaths. Near Bagshot on the road to Farnham. 
Dill. 107. (Mousehold Heath, Norwich, towards Rackheath. E. Bot. 
On moors near Rutsfield; on the ground upon Ravensworth Fell; and 
upon Egleston Moor. Mr. Winch. E.) Spring. Winter. 
L. fukca'tus. Tubercles tawny red, small; plant branched, branches 
upright, forked. 
Dill. 16. 21—Hag. 2. 10— H. Ox. xv. 7. row 3. 1. p. 632—Vaill. 26, 7. 7. 7 
— Mich. 40. 4 and D. 
Branches more numerous and shorter than in the preceding, and also more 
leafy. Tubercles terminating, small, round, flesh-coloured or yellowish. 
Dili. 
(Forked Lichen. Cenomyce furcata. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Var. 2. Leaves remarkably crisped and leafy. 
Dill 16. 27. D. 
Sometimes upright, sometimes bowed. Leaves and warts numerous. Dill. 
* (Generally found on micaceous rocks, and constitutes the first beginning of vege¬ 
tation on lava. Smith. It serves as food for the rein-deer. Linn. E.) 
