An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants. In letters / By Kurt Sprengel ... Translated from the German.

  • Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833.
Date:
1807
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Credit: An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants. In letters / By Kurt Sprengel ... Translated from the German. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of their masses of porphyry and granite. Lecidea atrovirens, sulfurea, siJacea, ockroi- t/ea, Urceolaria iessulata, Parmelia ventosa, erytlirella, intricatci, gelida, plicatilis; Gyrophora hyperborea, proboscideci, pel- Uta, prefer granite rocks; while those of porphyry are covered by Lecidea pustulata, fumosa, athroocarpa, cechumena, conßuens, hcematomma, with Endocarpon complica- taw, Parmelia ciliaris, furfuracea, cape- ratci, and Gyrophora spadochroci. On the hardest rock-crystal are found Lecidea rferc- dritica ; on mica, the species of Opegrapha called after Persoon, wirh Verrucaria /ra- chona ; on sandstone, Lecidea privigna and Parmelia craspedia ; cn basaltes, Parm.yks- cata ; on gneiss, Parmelia faklunensis and Lecidea silacea; on marble, Urceolaria pur- puraseens ; on schistus, Lecidea Dicksonii and pü/ytropa. Calcareous rocks, and old walls coated with lime, are inhabited by Parmelia saxicola, crasso^fulgens, elegans^circinnatci, miniata, murorum, by Lecidea immersa, epipolia, cupularis, mgr«, testacea, by Verrucaria Schräder i.