LICHEN analeptus.
Little Dotted-tubercled Lichen.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algce.
Gen. Char. Male, scattered warts.
Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the
seeds are imbedded.
Spec. Char. Crust determined, very thin, smooth,
shining, pale copper-coloured. Tubercles scattered,
black, hemispherical, with a central dot.
Syn. Lichen analeptus. Ach. Prod. 15.
Verrucaria analepta. Ach. Meih. 119.
OBSERVED by Mr. W . Borrer on the smooth bark of
young oaks in Sussex.
This minute vegetable forms small patches, their crust
being so thin that the dark red of the bark appears through it,
heightening the olive copper-like hue of the crust. By age
the latter nearly vanishes. Its surface is smooth and polished;
its edge determined, but not bounded by any coloured line.
Tubercles minute, regularly sprinkled over the crust, (not
clustered,) black, hemispherical, marked at the top with a
small depression.
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