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CRYPTOGAMIA. A LG /E. Lichen. 
Leaves broad, flat, variously lobed. Lobes indented; segments rounded, 
blunt, sometimes scolloped. Substance not very thick, flexible. Upper 
side sea-green, greyish in the hollows, grey or whitish when dry, yel¬ 
lowish when old; every part pitted or hollowed. Warts mealy, on the 
borders of the pits, the edge of the leaf or the end of the lobes, solitary, 
scattered, or crowded, the size of a pin's head, brownish with age, often 
perforated. Saucers rarely to be found, seated in the hollows, concave, 
border entire, brownish, centre yellowish or reddish brown. HofFm. 
Saacei's hemispherical, hollow, yellowish, tawny at the bottom. Huds. 
Segments broad, blunt, moderately thick, rather stiff, with circular 
hollows, blue grey. Saucers mealy, granulated, partly on the leaves, 
partly on their edges. Dill. 
(Greenish Lobed Lichen. Scotch: Aikraw. Sticta scrobiculata. Achar. 
Hook. E.) Lichen verrucosus. Huds. L. verrucarius. Gmel. Syst. Veg. 
Trunks and roots of trees, on large stones, and at the foot of rocks. 
Among the pebbles at Cockbush on the coast of Sussex. Rand. On 
large stones near Dolgelle, Merionethshire. Dill. On rocks just above 
Great Malvern, Worcestershire. St. Near Keswick, Cumberland. Dr. 
J. E. Smith. On ash, sycamore, and oak in the North West of Devon¬ 
shire. Frequently growing on the same trunk with L. herbaceus , laci- 
niatusy and nigrescens. Mr. Newberry. Garn dingle, and woods about 
Garthewin, Denbighshire. Mr. Griffith. (At the foot of Cheviot, above 
Langley Ford. On trees and stones in Shipley wood, near Egleston ; 
and on trees on the banks ofWestcrow Bourn, Durham. Mr. Winch. E.) 
P. Jan.—Dec. 
L. plum'beus. Saucers brown red, bordered: leaves lead-coloured, 
bluntly lobed; blue and spongy underneath. 
Dicks. H. S —( E.Bot . 353. E .)—Lightf. 26. at p. 826— Hoffni. Enum. 21. 2 
— Dill . 24. 73— Mich. 43. ord. 23. 1. 
Leaves , the edges and woolliness on the under-surface blue. Huds. Leaves 
when dry ash-coloured or yellowish white, and in long preservation the 
blue spongy hairs turn white; they frequently extend beyond the edge 
of the leaves. Shields brownish red, small, scolloped when old, their 
brims of the colour of the leaves. Lightf. 
(Lobed Ash-coloured Lichen. Earmelia plumbea. Achar. Hook. E.) 
L. coerulescens. Huds. p. 531. Trunks of trees. Near Pentir and Ban¬ 
gor. Dill. About Bradford, Yorkshire. About Drumlanrig, and in 
Barntimpenn Linn, about five miles from Moffat. Dr. Burgess in FI. 
Scot. On the great island in Winandermere. Dr. J. E. Smith. On 
trunks of oak, ash, and elm, Devonshire, very common. Mr. Newberry. 
Garn dingle, and about Llanrwst, common. Mr. Griffith. (On trees at 
Healy Field; near Middleton in Teesdale; and in the woods near 
Egleston. Mr. Winch. E.) P- Jan.—Dec. 
L. saturni'nus. Saucers dark brown red; foliage black green, mem¬ 
branaceous lobes rounded, woolly and ash-coloured underneath. 
(j E.Bot. 1980. E.)— Dicks. 6. 8. 
Leaf depressed, somewhat plaited, slightly wrinkled above, of a bluish or 
brownish blackish hue, very woolly underneath. Saucers scattered, 
reddish, or brown ; border of the same colour. Dicks. 
(Saturnine Gelatinous Lichen. Collema saturninum . Achar. Hook. 
E.) Trunks of trees, Scotland. (At Craigy Hall, near Edinburgh. Mr. 
Brown. On trees and stones near Egleston, but very scarce; in Cawsey 
Wood, Durham. Mr. Winch. On trees above Gwydir House, near Llan- 
wrst Mr. Griffith, E,| 
