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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGiE. Lichen. 
Two feet or more in length; branches not much thicker than a sewing 
thread., greenish-white. Not much branched, but the number of threads 
together form a considerable bush or tail. These straight threads send 
out lateral fibres throughout their whole length, either simple or divided, 
standing out side-wise, not pendent. Saucers few, rarely met with, 
small, flesh-coloured. Dill. It is on the authority of Dr. Smith that we 
place this as a var. of L. articulaius. L. barbatus. Linn. &c. In both 
kinds the stem and branches consist of a greenish outward crust inclosing 
a white woody thread, which runs through the whole plant, and is sur-< 
rounded by white wool-like fibres, which connect it with the crust. 
(Pendent Thread-like Tree Lichen. TJsnea barbata. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Branches of trees. Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, and near Bishop’s 
Castle. Dill. Pine forests, Scotland. Lightf. Oldfield wood near Ken* 
dal. Mr. Gough. 
(Another extraordinary variety has been found by Mr« Brodie growing upon 
broken sand banks in the warren opposite Exmouth. The stems are of 
the thickness of the little finger, and uniformly inflated, not in that inter¬ 
rupted manner which gives the plant its common pointed appearance. 
This is conjectured to be a distinct species. Bot. Guide. E.) 
L. vulpi'nus. Plant lemon-coloured, upright, very much branched, 
branches nearly of a length, angular, angles unequal. 
Jacq.Misc. ii. 10. 4— (E. Bot. 2113. E .)—FI Ban . 226— Bill. 13. 16. 
Lemon-coloured, always upright. Stems at first smooth, cylindrical, almost 
orange; paler with age, pitted, compressed, at length rough with a 
yellow farinaceous powder. Jacq. Grows in clusters round the branches 
of trees, chiefly oak. Shrubby ; branches divided and sub-divided, matted 
together in various directions, not more than one or half an inch long, 
cylindrical, thin, tender, soft in wet, rigid in dry seasons, paler or deeper 
yellow, terminating in short hair-like fibres. Dill. In winter it changes 
to a dull olive green. Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Brass-wire Lichen. L. Jlavicans. Achar. Prod. E. Bot. Borrera jla~ 
vicans. Achar. Syn. Hook. E.) Trunks and branches of trees. In a 
wood four miles from Basingstoke on the road to Salisbury. Corsley 
Heath, Somersetshire. About Slingford, Sussex. In Deu Park near 
Horsham, and Bridge Park near Tunbridge. Near Totteridge not far 
from Barnet, Hertfordshire. Dill. On Dartmoor and elsewhere in Devon¬ 
shire, and frequent in Somersetshire. Huds. On apple and sycamore 
trees in Cornwall, frequent. Mr. Stackhouse. P. Jan.—Dec.'* 
L. plica'txjs. Saucers grey green, radiated; branches pendent, thread¬ 
shaped, waved, matted together. 
Bill. 11. 1— E. Bot. 257— Matth. 62—Ger. 1369, and 1156. 1— Matth. a. 
C. B. 65. 1— Lob. Obs. 643. 2. 583. 1. Ic. ii. 242.1 and 155. 1 —Bod. 471. 
2 —Ger. Em. 1558, and 1339— Park. 1312. I— J. B. i. 6. 88 —Trag. 940. 
on the right hand branch of the tree. 
Branches thread-like, not very thin, matted together, unequally divided into 
other branches, the slender divisions fibrous, rather stiff, grey. Saucers 
lateral and terminating, flat, or but little concave, thin, grey above, 
brownish underneath, without any proper border, but the edge fringed 
with radiating hairs. The old plants are covered with a rough, whitish. 
* The Norwegians mix this plant with powdered glass, and strew it upon dead car¬ 
cases to poison wolves. It dies woollens yellow. 
