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CRYPTGGAMIA. ALGAL Lichen. 
E. Bot. 2360. 
(Creeping Verrucose Lichen. Spreading on the ground in damp shady 
places, or on stones and among moss. E.)* 
L. KESUPiNA f Tus. Saucers rust-coloured, large, facing downwards: 
foliage brown green, creeping, lobed. 
Dill 28. 105— E. Bot. 305—FI. Ban. 764— Mich. 44. Orel 13. 2 —Jacq. 
Coll. iv. 12. 1. 
.Readily distinguishable from L.caninus from the targets arising from the 
side of the leaf next the ground, and their being smaller. Linn. Sub¬ 
stance thin. Lobes bluntly scolloped, brown lead-colour, grey and 
whitish underneath, neither woolly nor fibrous. Targets numerous, 
varying in size, rust-coloured, fixed to the lower side of the leaf. Dill. 
(Reversed Lichen. Nephroma resupinata. Achar. Hook. E.) Trunks of 
trees, rocks, stones, on pebbles on the sea-shore, and on the ground in 
stony places. Garn dingle. Mr. Griffith. P. Jan.—Dec. 
Var. 2. Substance yellow when broken. 
This variety was found by Mr. Griffith on dry rocks about Garthewin. It 
only differs from the preceding in its yellow colour when broken. 
L. scuta^tus. Tubercles reddish, at the edge of the leaves; foliage 
grey green, creeping; lobes many-cleft, curled, naked and vein¬ 
less underneath. 
Jacq. Coll. iv. 18. 1— (E. Bot. 1834. E.) 
(Target-fruited Leathery Lichen. L. collinus. Achar. Prod. Pel - 
tidea scutata. Achar. Syn. Hook. E.) Leaves leather-like, tough; lobes 
curled like endive. Jacq. On the bark of trees in Scotland. Dicks, iii. 18. 
L. sYLVAT f icus. Tubercles brown, red, oblong, small, terminating: 
foliage dull brown green, warty, creeping, pitted, jagged. 
Bill* 27. 101— Hoffm. Lich. 4. 2— Jacq. Coll. iv. 12. 2— {E. Bot. 2298. E.)— 
Mich. 43. ord. 11. too broad , the ends of some represented as fringed. 
L&rge, lying on the ground, margin raised, irregularly divided into seg¬ 
ments, which are lopped and angular at the ends. Surface dull brown 
green, red brown when old and dry, blackish at the ends, pitted, rough in 
the rising parts with minute black warts. Underneath spongy and 
woolly. Substance tough, flexible, greenish or dirty white. Targets 
few, at the end of the narrowest segments, small ; oblong, or roundish, 
brown red. Hoffman. {Smell very fetid. Hook. 
Wood Pitted Lichen. Slicta sylvatica. Achar. Hook. E.) In shady 
woods at the roots of trees. In the wood called Enfield Chase, near 
Southgate, Middlesex; near Dolgelle, Merionethshire; Lucton Vallet, 
Herefordshire. Dill. Glen Eawood and other places about Kirkmichael, 
Dumfriesshire. Burgess in FI. Scot. (On rocks among moss in Chawsey 
Wood, and in woods near Egleston. Mr. Winch. E.) P. Jan.—Dec. 
Var. 2. Above of a fine green, the edges a little curled, and powdered 
with a bright yellow meal. Mr. Newberry. 
On ash, sycamore, and oak in the north-west of Devonshire. Mr. Newberry. 
L. hoeizonta'lis. Tubercles tawny red, horizontal, terminating: 
foliage brown green, flat, creeping, edges white; underneath 
brown, not veined. 
* (This plant is said to dye wool of a blue colour. E.) 
