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Lecidea.] LICHENES. 177
convex slightly immersed in the crust bordered when young.
Sm.—Lichen dubius, E. Bot. t. 2347.
Common on boarded buildings. Smith.
16. L. Griffithii, (Griffithian Lecidea); crust thin white
smooth, apothecia sessile scattered pale purplish waxy-brown
with a smooth bonier of the same colour blackened in decay.
Sm.—Lichen Griffithii, E. Bot. t. 1735. Lecidea enteroleuca,
Ach. Syn.p. 19. (Borrer.)—Lichen cor -ens, With.—Hull.
On C'ak and Birch bark.
17. L. Gdgei, {rusty spongy-crusted Lecidea); crust dispersed
minutely granulated somewhat fibrous bibulous of a tawny olive,
apothecia minute blackish-brown with a paler border of their
own substance finally convex and deprived of their border. Sm.
—Lichen dolosus, E. Bot. t. 2581. (not Ach., according to Mr.
Borrer.)
On a rock called O'Donoghue's prison, at Killarney, Sir T. Gage,
Bart.—The Lecidea dolosa of Ach., Mr. Borrer informs me is only a var.
of L. parasema.
18. L. aromdtica, Turn. Mss. {aromatic Lecidea); crust
strongly rooted (?) indeterminate of irregular minute crowded
smooth greyish- white portions, apothecia in the interstices
black round concave with a thick black border. Sm.— Lichen
aromaticus, E. Bot. t. 1777.
On old flint walls in Norfolk and Suffolk, especially where there is
a stratum of earth or moss, Mr. D. Turner.—The fragrant scent of
this Lichen, when bruised, is very remarkable. Sir J. E. Smith ranks it
with the L. (xeruleo-nigricans } and if that be its affinity, it would be a
Psora of this arrangement. 1 rather follow Mr. Borrer, in placing it
among the true Lecidea-.
19. L, sangwndria, Ach. (sanguineous Lecidea ); crust thickish
ragulose r waited greyish-white somewhat polished, apothecia
at length convex heinispluerical subtuberciilated black
and horny within upon a bright-red stratum. Ach. Syn. />. 1!'.
— Lichen sanguinarius, E. liot.t. 155.
On rods and trees, especially in subalpine districts.
l'o. L. mtucArum, ( Moss Lecidea); crust determinate granulated
black
grey somewhat Ipbed and branched, apothecia crowded
elevated at length .somewhat turbinated.— Lichen muscoran,.
" Linn. Metli. MuSC. p. 36. //*///. Cant, . p 424. t. 5. Dicks.
Cr. PL .')!»."'
/;. Bot t. 686.— Lecidea sabuletonttn, Flbrhc.—
Ach. Sun. p. 20. ( Borrer,)
On mosses, Uogmagog bills, near Cambridge, Mr. Rdkan; and elsewhere.
L'l. L. r/ridi-afni, Ach. (rough tar'nr-erustt d I
continued t art areou- i
< r ,/< r ); CTllfl
t;m bed tumid uneven ami granulated pale
brownish-grey, apothecia id the interstices crowded Aattiah
black at length convex with s very thin black border. Sm—
Ach. Syn*p.2\.— Lichen miseeUms, /'. Bot t 18S1. (not I •<
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