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L I C H E N digitatus.
Fingered Cup Lichen.
CRYPTOGAMJA Algos,
Gen. Char. Male, scattered warts.
Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the
seeds are imbedded.
Spec. C h a r . Obscurely cup-shaped, pale grey, mealy.
Stalks subdivided, digitate and radiating. Tubercles
terminal, deep scarlet, Leaves minute, lobed
and crenate, '
Syn. Lichen digitatus, Linn. Sp. PL 1620. Ach.
Prod. 188. With. v. 4, 39. Hull 304, Lightf.
874, Helh. 469.
L. pyxidatus | | Huds, 554.
Lichenoides coralliforme, apicibus coccineis. Ran
Syn. 68.
Baeomyces digitatus, Ach. Meth. 333.
Coralloides ramulosum, tuberculis coccineis. Dill.
Muse. 96, t. 15. ƒ. 19.
O N E of the most beautiful of its family, found on rotten
trees, or ou the ground, in mountainous places, but not frequently,
The late Mr. J. Burgess Mac-Garroch gathered
our specimens near Kirkmichael, Dumfries-shire. The present
plant is considered rts nearly related to L . cocciferus,
t. 2051, but differs in having scarcely any form of a cup, but
in its stead numerous branches spring from one centre, each
being either simple pr divided, and tipped with a tubercle of
a rich deep sea. let, that elegantly contrasts with the grey
mealiness of the stalks and finely divided foliage.
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