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LICHEN ciliaris.
Great Ciliated Lichen.
b - r
CRYPTOGAMIA Algae.
G en . Ch a r . Male, scattered warts.
Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the
seeds are imbedded.
Spec. Ch a r . Leafy, membranous, ascending, minutely
pubescent, of a greenish glaucous grey: segments
linear, laciniated, fringed. Shields elevated, brownish
black. .
Syn. Lichen ciliaris. Linn. Sp. PI. 1611. Achar.
Prod. 173. Huds. 5 38. With. v. 4. 55. Hull. 297.
Relh. 466. Sibth. 323. Abbot. 2 65. Dicks. H. Sicc.
fasc. 7. 24. Ehrh. Crypt. 227.
Lichenoides hispidum majus et rigidius, scutellis nigris.
Dill. Muse. 150. t. 20. f . 45.
L. arboreum foliosum cinereum, scutellis nigris, folio-
rum extremitatibus hispidis et pilosis. Rail Syn. 73.
L. ciliare. Hoffm. PI. Lick. t. 3. f . 4.
Parmelia ciliaris. Achar. Meth. 255.
No less abundant than the last in its appropriate situations,
which are the trunks and branches of large trees, sometimes
stones, where it is found at all seasons bearing copious shields.
It is much larger than the preceding, with which Linnaeus
confounded it, and differs in many essential characters. The
colour is more dull and greenish, especially when wet, the surface
minutely downy, the fronds less depressed, and much
more copiously fringed. The whole plant is very much
branched, its segments dilated upwards, rather convex throughout,
but not inflated or vaulted at the end. The under side is
white and concave. Shields on thick stalks, flattish, large,
brownish black, glaucous when young, their border inflexed
and crenate. Sometimes the border is greatly dilated, variously
laciniated, and grows erect.