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Coniicularia.] LICHENES. 229
timate ones small with forked blackish points, apothecia concave
orange-brown with an inflexed border Ach. Syn. p. 69.
Lichen ochroleucits, Ehrh. Beitr E. Bot. t. 2374.— Usnea
ochroleuca, Hoffm. PL Lich. v. 2. p. 7 t. 26'. / 2, and t. 68.
f.5,6,7.
Highland mountains of Scotland.— I have never seen it growing except
upon the Cairngorm mountains, in the same situations as Alectoria
ochroleuca, appearing in dense erect tufts, while the latter is procumbent,
straggling and creeping.—The apotheciti I possess only upon
Norwegian specimens, gathered on Setteficld near Tarfie in Doorefield.
5. C. landta, Ach. (black woolly Comic ala via); thallus decumbent
spreading- densely tufted smooth brownish-black of innumerable
slender flexuose intricate rounded ramifications, apothecia
of the same colour flat or slightly convex with a jagged
border. Ach. Syn. p. 846. Lichen lanatus, Linn.— Schrad.
Spied, p. 100. t. 1. /: 6.—E. Bot. t. 846.—Dill. Muse. t. 13.
/. 8, 9, andt. 17. f. 32.
Rocks, in mountainous situations in the north, more frequent on the
highest mountains, plentiful and bearing fruit on Ben Nevis.
6. C. ? hderomdlla, (black Plush Coniicularia); minutely
shrubby densely tufted erect entangled cylindrical corymbose
black with palish notched tips. Lichen heteromalku,- Sm. in
E. Bot. t. 2246.
In the cracks of the hark of old Elms, in Hainault forest, Mr. Sower.
by.—"We can find no characters suitable to this plant in Acharius, to
whose Genus Cvrnicularia it undoubtedly belongs. The fronds form wide
dense black patches, from a quarter to half an inch thick, harsh and
rigid, but not brittle, when dry; soft, elastic, and spongy when wet.
Each is repeatedly branched, from a slender base, in a corymbose man-
ner, upwards, so as to make a level surface at the top. The colour is
a deep olive-black, rather shilling, paler here and there, especially at the
tips, which however are often quite black, and the whole, standing upright,
are entangled laterally by their branches, so as to compose BOmetMUg
like coarse velvet or plush. No shields are discoverable." It would
probably with more propriety be referred to the Flings, but I have never
seen any specimen.
Oils. — 'flu- Coniicularia pubescent of Acharius, [Lichen pubescent, Linn,
and E. Bot. t. 2318) an inhabitant otwei rock-, has all the structure of
Bangi* atro-virens s Lyngbye, (Sligonema, Agardh): but Sir J. K. Smith
has represented upon it the Bhields of a Lichen. There is, however,
reason to believe that these supposed fructifications arc a parasitic Fan-
gUS, which ('apt. ( 'arinii bail has detected and described in Dr.