L ICHEN sylvaticus.
TV)od Pitted Lichen.
CRYPTOGAM!A Algce.
Gen. Char. Male, scattered warts.
Female, smooth shields or tubercles, in which the
seeds are imbedded.
Spec. Char. Membranous, ascending, deeply lobed,
bluntly cut, divaricated, of a greenish rusty hue
and somewhat pitted, above; beneath downy,
tawny, blackish, with white pits. Shields mar-
gmal, vertical, convex, dark brown.
Syn. Lichen sylvaticus. H udf. 547. Linn. Syst. Veg.
ed. 14. 961, Achar. Prod. 156. W iih .v . 4. 71.
Hull. 300. Lightft 848. Sm. Tour to Hafod, 12.
Lichenoides polyschides, villosum etscabrum, peltis
parvis. Hill. Muse. 199. t. 27. ƒ. 101.
Sticta sylvatica. A char. Meth. 281. Winch, ft. 2 . 61.
Peltigerasylvatica. Hqffm. P I. Lich. v. 1. 21. t. 4 . f . 2.
y \ E have long waited, and have hunted for many an hour
in Vain, for British specimens of the shields of this Lichen, of
which we once saw a tine specimen, sent by Dr. Burgess to
Dr. Hope; so that we can vouch for the accuracy of what we
are at length obliged to borrow from Hoffinanu’s beautiful work,
atj%. 1 . The plant itself, brought by Lady Wilson from
the falls of Moness, is plentiful enough under trees in recluse
mountainous woods of Oak, Birch, &c. The fronds compose
light elastic tufts, as they spread nearly horizontally, slightly
touching the ground or each other with their divaricated narrow
lobes. Their upper surface is of a rich, often greenish,
brown, full of little hollows; the under besprinkled with whitish
pits, among short soft down; for this species belongs to the
family of g j g L see t. 1103, 1104. When moist, the whole
has a foetid alkaline scent. The shields stand pressed vertically
to marginal segments, and are small, convex, brown, without
borders.