L I C H E N elegans.
Elegant Orange Lichen.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algos.
G en. C har. Male, scattered warts.
Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the
seeds are imbedded.
S pec. Char. Crust hard, smooth, orbicular, radiating,
plaited or rugged ; its lobes linear, compound, convex,
wavy, all of a tawny orange, as well as the
shields and their smooth borders.
S yn. Lichen elegans. Ach. Prod. 102.
L. sympageus. Ach. Prod. 105.
L. fulvus. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 3. 16. Willd. v. 4. 33.
Hull. 294.
Lichenoides tenuissimum, scutellis exiguis miniatis.
Dill. Muse. 175. t. 14. f . 68.
Parmelia elegans. Ach. Meth. 193. Winch, v. 2 . 5 4 .
W £ are not sure that several distinct Lichens have not been
confounded under the above synonyms, but we have in the
plate added one of Dr. Swartz’s beautiful original specimens
from Lapland, that botanists may judge respecting his plant.
Those drawn upon the stone were gathered on Salisbury craigs,
Edinburgh, in 1781 ,
This species is most akin to murorum, l. 2157, but always
much smaller in dimensions, and more orange, or fulvous,
in colour; the segments are also more inclined to separate,
and become linear zigzag and convex. W^e should suppose
Hoffmann’s miniutus, PI. L^ch. t. 60. f. l, to be the same
with ours, but Acharius now separates it. Hoffmann’s tegu-
laris, t. 17. f. 3, is far more unlike elegans, though quoted
as a variety in the Methodus o f the learned author just mentioned.
2m.
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