CRYPTOGAMIA. AL GM. Lichen. 
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L. furfura'ceus. Saucers reddish brown : foliage greyish, prostrate, 
as if sprinkled with bran; segments acute; pitted and black 
underneath. 
Hojfm. Lich. 9. 2—( E . Bot. 984. E.)— Buxh. ii. 7. 1 and 2— DilL 21. 52— 
Mich. 38. ord. 4. l.—Barr. 1277. 3. 
Saucers the edges frequently bent back, making them appear convex. Mr. 
Woodward. I have never found a plant with saucers. Weis. p. 66. 
Leyser n. 1147. Mr. Newberry. Plant expanding from a narrow base, 
more or less crowded and ascending: branches bent back, segments 
numerous, terminating in brownish-pointed horns. Surface greyish, 
rough, with a powdery substance, often greenish; wrinkled and blackish 
underneath. Saucers rarely seen, large, nearly hemispherical, brown 
red within, placed on the surface of the larger branches. Hoffman. 
Leaves often as if thorny at the edges, not rigid. Dill. 
(Branny Lichen. Borrera furfuracea. Achar. Hook. E.) Trunks and 
branches of trees, and old pales. Plentifully on Wild Tor-Rock, 
five miles from Chagford, Devonshire, and also on many of the smaller 
rocks of granite. Mr. Newberry. (In great quantity on the trees 
in Edgbaston Park, near Birmingham, but not in fruit. On the walls of 
Cronset and West Crow Park; also about Egleston, and at Water Gate, 
near Healy Field, Durham. Mr. Winch. E.) P. Jan.—Dec. 
L. tenejJlus. Saucers dark brown, nearly sitting: leaves grey 
green, segments blunt, nearly upright, fringed, the ends tubular 
when old. 
Hoffm. Lich. 3. 2 and 3— (E. Bot. 1351. E.)— Dill. 20. 46— Vaill. 20. 5— 
Mich. 50. Ord. 27 and 28. 
Variously shaped, forming at first a small flat circle, segments slender, sub¬ 
divided at the ends, grey white, greenish when wet, more grey under¬ 
neath. Surface sprinkled with minute black dots, edges hairy. Other 
parts of the leaves swelling at the end pour forth a greenish powder, the 
discharge of which leaves an open cavity in the substance. Saucers on 
short foot-stalks, rare, found on the plants with leaves hollow at the ends. 
They are circular, brown or blackish, surrounded with a border the 
colour of the plant. This species connects the leafy and tiled Lichens 
with the leafy and upright. Common on stones and trees; chiefly the 
willow and Blackthorn. Hoffm. 
(Little Ciliated Lichen. Borreratenella. Achar. Hook. E.) On most 
trees, bushes, pales, and sometimes on stones. 
L. fraxin(eus. Saucers pale brown, on pedicles: foliage greenish 
ash-colour ; straight, oblong, spear-shaped, pitted, smooth, some¬ 
what jagged. 
(FI. Dan. 1187— E.Bot. 1781. E.)— Dill. 22. 59— Hoffm. Lich. 18. 1. 2— 
Tourn. 325. A. B — Happ. iii. Lichen 6— Wale. 2Vo. 9. 11. Ox. xv. 7. row 
the last , 3 and 4 ; row 3. 14 —.Mich. 36. 1. 
From 1 to 6 inches high, varying in shape, wrinkled or meshed with hollows 
on each side. Leaves of the younger plants, less wrinkled, shorter, spear- 
shaped. Branches but few, rising from one common stem, divided into 
several segments, terminating in pointed horns. Flexible when moist, 
more rigid and paler when dry. Colour on both sides glaucous, or pale 
ash, yellowish with age. Saucers very common, on every part of the 
plant, circular, concave, obtaining a pedicle from the substance of the 
lear, pale brown or flesh-colour within. Hoffm. Saucers mostly of a pale 
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