82 LICHENS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 



ate. Podetia concolorous with the primary thallus, clustered, more rarely 

 solitary, medium length, cylindrical or top shaped, erect, hollow, branched, 

 entirely or partly corticate toward the base, toward the top cortex, dispersed 

 in the form of areoles and sorediate, squamules very small or entirely 

 absent; cups small to medium sized, abruptly dilated, margin entire or 

 dentate, proliferate. Apothecia on short stipe from the margin of the cups, 

 clustered or solitary, clusters often 6.0 mm. across; disk flesh color (R), 

 fawn color (R), rarely brick-red, flat to convex. KOH— , P+, slightly 

 reddish orange. 



On soil, a thin layer of soil over rocks, or decaying wood : San Juan Co. : 

 San Juan Island, trail to Heaven, 1940, 3247. Pierce Co.: Mt. Rainier, 

 Summerland, 6500 ft., 1931, 688. Clallam Co.: Port Angeles, Bird's, 1914, 

 Foster 2600 (W) ; Olympic Hot Springs, 1914, Foster 2875 (W). Jeffer- 

 son Co. : Queets River Valley, near Humes Glacier, 5000 ft., 1907, T. C. 

 Frye 32 (F). 



Easily identified by the flesh color or fawn color of the disk, which is 

 unusual for a Cladonia; also by the stipitate apothecia growing from the 

 margins of the cups. 



9. Cladonia cenotea (Ach.) Schaer. Lich. Helv. Spic. 1 :35. 1823. 

 Baeomyces cenoteus Ach. Meth. Lich. 345. 1803. 



Primary thallus usually persistent, greenish gray or light brownish 

 olive (R), consisting of small or medium sized squamules, flat or ascend- 

 ing, irregularly incised or entire, underside white and somewhat sorediate. 

 Podetia concolorous with the primary thallus, usually clustered, long, erect, 

 subcylindrical, irregular, swollen, rarely branched, upper part decorticate 

 and sorediate, often corticate and squamulose toward the base; cups 

 medium sized, often funnel shaped, perforate, margins proliferate. Apo- 

 thecia on the proliferations from the margins of the cups, solitary or clus- 

 tered, small and inconspicuous, often not more than .5 mm. across, some- 

 times entirely absent; disk flesh color (R), at length dark brown, flat to 

 convex. KOH — , P+, faintly reddish orange. 



On soil and rotten wood : Not collected by the author. Spokane Co. : Mt. 

 Carlton, 1906, T. A. Bonser (F). 



10. Cladonia chlorophaea (Flk.) Spreng. in Linn. Syst. Veg. 4: 273. 1827. 

 Cenomyce chlorophaea Flk. in Somrft. Suppl. Fl. Lapp. 130. 1826. 

 Cladonia pyxidata var. chlorophaea Flk. 



Primary thallus usually persistent, ashy, greenish, brownish, or oliva- 

 ceous, consisting of medium sized squamules, flat or ascending, crenate or 

 digitately lobed, concave or convex, underside white or yellowish, sorediate. 

 Podetia concolorous with the primary thallus, solitary or clustered, erect, 

 rather short, cylindrical, usually simple, corticate surface being somewhat 

 areolate or verruculose ; cups deep goblet form gradually widening from 

 the base, dentate or proliferating from the margin, bearing either cups or 

 apothecia on the margins, abundant granular-soredia are borne on both the 



