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the breadth of a straw, one to two inches long, greyish. Tubercles small, 
flat, mealy, on the edges and sometimes on the surface of the leaves, 
whiter than the rest of the plant. Dill. Barren segments acute; the 
fruit-bearing blunt. Saucers concave when young, when old convex, 
shining, on short pedicles. Retz. 
(Hoary Sea-side Lichen. E.) L. scopulorum. Retz. iv. 103, and Gmel. 
Syst. Veg. Rocks in the island of Jersey. Dill. On rocks and woods on 
the sea shore near Gosport. Dicks. 
L. sacca'tus. Saucers blackish, sunk in deep pits in the leaf : foliage 
fine pale green, creeping, circular. 
E. Bot. 288— Mich. 52. ord. 31— FI. Dan. 532. 3—Dill. 30. 121. 
Readily distinguishable from its having in place of a target a sack hanging 
down from the lower surface. Linn. Leaves at first disposed in a circular 
figure, but little cut, when older divided into bluntly Scolloped lobes, 
thin, tender, smooth, fine glaucous green. Roots from the under surface, 
fibrous. Targets in the hollow sack in the leaf. Dill. 
(Creeping Sacked Lichen. Solorina saccata. Achar. Hook. E.) Chedder 
rocks not far from a subterranean river. On Snowdon, at the rocks of 
Llyn Cwn y Ffynnon Velen, and about Clogwyn y Garnedd. Dill. About 
the mouth of Yordas Cave, near Xngleborough Hill. Dr. J. E. Smith. 
Garreg-wen-rocks near Garn, Denbigshire. Crib y Ddescil, Carnarvon. 
Mr. Griffith. 
L. cro'ceus. Tubercles brown, on the surface of the leaf: foliage 
greyish green, flat, creeping, circular, veined and saffron coloured 
underneath. 
( E. Bot. 498. E.)— Hoff'm. Lich. 42. 4. 5. and 41. 2. 4— Jacq. Coll . iv. 11. 2. 
3~Linn. 'Lapp. 11. 3—Bill. 30. 120 — El. Dan. 263. 
Leaves nearly flat, lying on the ground, roundish, narrower towards the 
base, about an inch over, cut at the edge, lobes blunt, sometimes entire, 
scolloped, three or four leaves forming a circle, but not regular, colour 
grey green, deep yellow underneath, which circumstance alone is suffi¬ 
cient to distinguish it. Targets flat, brown, few, one to two lines diameter. 
Linn, in Dill. 
(Saffron Grey Lichen. Solorina crocea. Achar. Hook. E.) On a rock 
near the top of Benteskerney, Breadalbane. Mr. Stewart in FI. Scot. On 
the very summit of Ben Lawers. Mr. Brown. On Ben Glow in Athol. 
Mr. Don. E.) P. Jan.—Dec. 
L. perla'tus. Saucers brown, somewhat scolloped, on fruit-stalks : 
foliage grey green, creeping, lobed, smooth, mealy at the edge ; 
black underneath. 
(E. Bot. 341. E.)— Jacq. Coll, iv, 10 —Dill. 20. 39—• Vaill. 21.12— Mich. 50. 
ord. 24. 1 —Barr. 1278. 3. 
I have examined thousands of plants without finding one with saucers. Mr. 
Woodward. Blue grey, pitted, fringed. Saucers large, glass-shaped, 
on short pedicles, brown and smooth within ; border when old, cracked. 
Very common, particularly about Oxford, on the trunks of oaks, but 
seldom found with saucers. Dill. 
(Pearly Lichen. Farmelia perlata. Achar. Hook. E.) Trunks of trees 
and stones. Scarce in Norfolk, but extremely common in Hertfordshire, 
on the smooth bark of beech, on which it groivs with great regularity and 
beauty. Mr. Woodward* P. Jan.—Dec, 
