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L I C H E N pranafiri*
Ragged hoary Lichen.
CRYPT OG AMI A Alga.
Gebt. Char. Male, fcattered warts.
Female, fmooth fhields or tubercles, in which the
feeds are imbedded.
S p e c .C h a r . Leafy, much-branched, upright, leathery,
foft, greenith-white, pitted and rugged; very white
beneath ; the fegments linear, flat, acute. Shields
lateral, concave, bright-brown.
Syn . Lichen prunaflri. Linn. Sf. Pi. 1614. Achar.
Prodr. 174. H u d f .^ iß l W itb .v .y 52. Hull. i ß .
L . corniculatus. Relb. 433.
Lichenoides cornutum bronchiale molle, fubtus in-
eanum. Dill. Muß. 160. t. z i . f . 35 A,.
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EW botanifts have well underftood the tribe of leafy or flat
branched Lichens to which the prefent fpecies belongs; indeed
Dr. Acharius, in his Prodromus and in the Stockholm Tranf-
a£tions, is the fir ft who has clearly illuftrated their Proteus-like
forms. We agree with him that this is the real prumßri> with
which almoft all writers have confounded fome others that are
diftincl from it, apparently from being ignorant of the fructification,
which even Dillenius never knew. It was firft found
in England by the late Rev. Mr. Bryant, and confifts of large
chefnut fhields with an entire white edge, entirely different
from the fhields of the common Lichens that have been confounded
with this, and which we fhall take an, opportunity o f
illuftrating when we have fettled them all by communication of
original fpecimens with Dr. Acharius. In the mean time the
frunaßrir which is common on the branches of old trees, may
eafily.be known without its fructification, (which is very rare;
and which we received from Mr. Templeton and Mr. Salt),
by its foft and pliable texture, and diffufe much-branched form.
Mr. Relhan rightly diftinguifhed it from what he then thought
frunaßriy by the name of corniculatus.