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CRYPTOGAM] A. ALGiE. Lichen. 
L. cani'nus. Tubercles reddish brown,, oblong, terminating, foliage 
ash-coloured, mealy, creeping, lobes blunt, woolly and veined 
underneath. 
Blackw. 33 6—Jacq. Coll. iv. 14. 1— {E. Bot. 2299. E.)— Dill. 27. 102— 
Woodv. 2T4— H. Ox. xv. 7. row 2. 1—Fl. Dan. 767.2— Vaill. 21. 16. 
Targets brown, underneath smooth and flesh-coloured. Linn. Leaves 
covered with a kind of ash-coloured mealiness. Grows on the ground. 
Leaves a span long, one or two inches broad, widening as they grow out, 
lobes short, blunt, single, or in strata, membranaceous, grey dull dirty 
green ; woolly and veined underneath, roots white fibres. Targets ter¬ 
minating, hard, solid, oblong, but rounded, tawny, reddish brown. Dill. 
(Ash-coloured Ground Liver-wort. Peltidea canina. Achar. Hook. E.) 
Woods, heaths, stony places, and hedges. P. Jan.—Dec. 
L. polydac'tylos. Tubercles fed brown, egg-shaped, terminating, on 
pedicles : foliage dull green, smooth, flat, lobed; divisions finger¬ 
like ; underneath woolly and veined. 
Jacq. Coll. 14.2— Hojfm. Lick. 4. 1— Dill. 28. 107. 
Growing in tufts, divided into lobes one or one and a half inch in length, 
broadest at the end, the extreme lobes ending in numerous convoluted 
red brown finger-shaped targets, seated on pedicles. Surface smooth, 
dull green, changing to greyish or red brown when dry. Underneath 
veinous, downy, brownish. Hoffman. 
(Flat Many-fingered Lichen. L. caninus , y. Huds. &c. Peltidea poly- 
dactyla. Achar. Hook. E.) About Perfeddgoed House, not far from 
Bangor. Dill. 
Var. 2. Shorter, thinner, more variegated. 
Dili. 28. 108. 
Veiny and woolly underneath. Dill. 207. Shorter, thinner, whiter under¬ 
neath, more transparent and more variegated in its colours than the 
preceding. Hoffman. 
L. caninus , t>. Huds. &c. On Rumbles Mear, near Helwick, Yorkshire. 
Dill. 
L. veno'sus. Tubercles and saucers purplish brown, horizontal, ter¬ 
minating : foliage dirty dull green, egg-shaped, flat; veined and 
woolly underneath. 
Dicks. H. S — Dill. 28. 109— Hoff'm. Licit. 6. 2— (E. Bot. 887.— FI. Dan. 
1125. 1. E.) — Mich. 44. 3. 5— Dill. 28. 110. 
At first small, circular, flat on the ground ; when older raised up ; one or 
one and a half inch over, oblong or egg-shaped, border divided into a 
few segments, but irregularly and obliquely. Surface greenish, grey 
or brown when dry ; white and brown, variegated underneath, with 
large veins, thick, woolly, brown, dividing at the extremities. Boot at 
the base of the leaf, wedge-shaped, short. Targets at the end of the 
lobes, sessile, concave or convex, circular, horizontal, dark brown purple. 
Hoffman. 
(Green Veiny Lichen. Peltidea venosa. Achar. Hook. E.) Moist rocks 
under shady brows in several parts of Glenkill Linn, and Glenkill Burn, 
in the parish of Kirkmichael, Dumfries-shire. Dr. Burgess in FI. Scot. 
844. Moistish stones and rocks about Dunkeld, Scotland. (Found by 
Dr. Babbington close to the town of Ludlow. E. Bot. E.) 
P. Jan.—Pec. 
