84 LICHENS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 



ascending, involute, underside white. Podetia whitish or grayish, solitary or 

 clustered, rather short, erect, cylindrical, straight and sometimes branching 

 toward the apex, often decorticate through its entire length, more or less 

 densely covered with pale yellow or pale green soredia, toward the base 

 there may be a continuous cortex with a few squamules ; cups often abor- 

 tive, nothing more than truncate apices depressed in the center, when 

 present very narrow. Apothecia rare, if present sessile or stipitate on the 

 margins of the cups, or on the apices of the podetia, small and inconspicu- 

 ous; disk brown, flat to convex. KOH — , P+, brick red. 



On soil and decaying wood: King Co.: Edgewood, 300 ft., 1931, 1809. 

 King-Kittitas Co. : Snoqualmie Pass, 3010 ft., 1931, 818. Chelan Co. : Rain- 

 bow Trail, 3800 ft., 1931, 1277. San Juan Co.: San Juan Island, 1906, 

 Fink 148 (W). Determined by Fink as Cladonia fimbriata var. coniocraea. 

 Olympic Mountains, Hurricane Ridge, 1935, A. H. Smith 1135 (F). 



Rather an inconspicuous Cladonia, with no very definite distinguishing 

 characteristics. 



13. Cladonia crispata (Ach.) Flot. Merkw. Flech. Hirschb. 4. 1839. 

 Baeomyces turbinatus var. crispatus Ach. Meth. Lich. 341. 1803. 

 Cladonia fur cata vsiT. crispata (Ach.) Flk. 



Primary thallus persistent or dying, gray, greenish gray, or greenish 

 brown, consisting of lacinate or crenate, medium sized squamules, ascend- 

 ing, rather densely grouped forming a crust, underside white. Podetia 

 whitish, gray, greenish gray, dull oHve green, or brownish green, solitary 

 or clustered, short or medium in length, subcylindrical, erect, branched, 

 axils dilated, cortex continuous, or dispersed in the form of areoles, 

 squamules absent or rather abundant, and conspicuous, because of the 

 prominent clear white under surface, especially noticeable in dried speci- 

 mens ; cups small, dilated, perforate, when cups are not produced, there are 

 dilated and gaping axils. Apothecia on the tips of proliferations growing 

 from the margins of the cups or stipitate on the margins of the cups, usually 

 solitary sometimes clustered, small, seldom more than 0.8 mm. across; 

 disk brown, flat to convex, KOH — , P-f-, deep reddish orange. 



On soil and decaying wood : Kitsap Co. : Hidden Ranch, near Bremer- 

 ton, 213 ft., 1931, 1734, 1754. San Juan Co.: San Juan Island, 1906, Fink 

 170 (W). King Co. : Kent, 1927, G. N. Jones 304 (W). 



14. Cladonia deformis (L.) Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. 2:120. 1795. 

 Lichen deformis Linn. Sp. PI. 1152. 1753. 



Primary thallus often dying, if present rather sparse, pale reddish brown 

 or yellowish green, consisting of crenate or lobed, medium sized squamules, 

 underside white somewhat brownish, often sorediate. Podetia straw yel- 

 low (R), or green brownish toward the base, usually clustered, sometimes 

 scattered, elongated, cylindrical, often swollen, simple, rarely branched, 

 lower part corticate, sometimes squamulose, upper part sorediate or sorediate 

 throughout, cortex often badly cracked ; cups gradually or abruptly dilated, 



