L I C H E N caninus.
Ash-coloured Ground Lichen.
Gen. Char. Male, scattered warts.
Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the
seeds are imbedded.
Spec. Char Frond coriaceous, dilated, ascending-
furrowed, grey; white, with brown veins and.
libres, beneath ; lobes very broad, with marginal,
fruit-bearing processes. Shields in front
vertical, revolute, roundish, red-brown, with a
pale border.
Syn. Lichen caninus. L inn. Sp. PI. 1616. Achar
Prod. 160. Huds. 546. With. £ 4 . 69.
Relh. 465. Sibth. 331. Abbot. 267. Woodv.
Med. Pot. Suppl, t. 273.
Lichenoides digitatum cinereiim, lactucæ foliis si-
nuosis. Dill. M u se . 2 0 0 . t. 27. f . 102.
L. peltatum terrestre cinereum majus, foliis divisis.
Kan Syn. 76.
Peltidea canina. Achar. Meth. 283. Winch, v. 2 .6 1 ,
rib* wbereabundant on heaths, banks, and about the
roots of trees in shady woods. It is known by its larger size
more ash-coloured, and furrowed as if veinyf upperfurface’
and copious, distant, large, bright bay shield!, froS all of the
same tribe ; several of which are nearly related to, and have
been considered as varieties of, the present plant. The k Z
thery fronds form great patches, and when young especiX
are of a fine light grey, without polish, above; by !ge and
repeated wet they grow darker, \v4rts are often fom K o u t
veins ^mi’d often^tckV™1“ S\de haS coPious veins, and often blackish, evenly-scattered, radbiicrloews.n elAevta tthede
margin are solitary, simple, broadish, convex lobes, each
bearing only one large, perpendicular, orbicular, at length
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