This kind of vegetation, as it begins upon siliceous stones, is very thin, and frequently not to be distinguished from the surface of the flint. The byssus jolithus of Linnæus (lepraria jolithus of the present system), an adhesive carmine crust on rocks and old buildings, was, even by scientific persons, taken for the substance on which it spread. A great variety of these minute vegetables are to be found in some parts of the coast, where the beach, formed of stones of various kinds, is undisturbed, and exposed to every change of weather; in this situation the different species of lichen, in their different stages of growth, have an appearance interesting and agreeable even to those who are ignorant of, and indifferent to, the cause.
[41] Note 3, page 297, lines 87 and 88.
Each has its motto: some contrived to tell,
In monkish rhyme, the uses of a bell.
The several purposes for which bells are used are expressed in two Latin verses of this kind.
[42] Note 4, page 297, line 110.
But monuments themselves memorials need.
Quandoquidem data sunt ipsis quoque fata sepulchris.
Juvenal. Sat. x. I. 146.
[43] Note 5, page 301, last line.