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Lichenes crullacei.
,Sarb w notthl of a dry and friable motto., more
lef, figrined into flat crafts, very deftly
adhering to whatever tbry grow upon.

Some of the fpecics of this divifion cordift of an

exceeding fine thin cruftaccous, or rather, as Mich: li
calls it, farinaceous matter, the frultifications appear-
ing in the form of tubercles. Others confifl of a
thicker fcabrous cruit, having the frudifications in
the form of little cups, calleliftuteller.
This divifion contains the bob order of the lithe-
aside, of Di Honks.; the cth, 6th, and cth orders of
Haller's lichens ; the &been leprofi and era/leery of
Linnzus ; and leveral of the Agendum of Hill.
The (pecks are numcrous,-and molt of them very
common on rocks, Roots, old walls, the bark of
trees, old pales, &e. which are commonly covered
over with them, in undifturbed places. They form
vcry Igrecablc variety, and fome of them have a
very elegant appearance.
Dr. Daimon dcfcribes (pecks of this order,
which he found upon the tops of the mountains in
Cacrnervonthire in Wales ; and which the inhabit-
ants told him they ufed as a red dye, and found it
preferable to the cork, or steel, which they call hos-
La-4. He has intitled it, in Englifh, Tbe sobite tar-
urea. frarlet-dying liebenaida (s+). He I. of opi-

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