86 LICHENS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 



On soil or decaying wood : Kitsap Co. : Hidden Ranch near Bremerton, 

 213 ft., 1930, 1960. King Co. : Richmond Highlands, 300 ft., 1931, 577. 

 Clallam Co.: Dean's, Ennis Creek, foot of Mt. Angeles, 1911, Foster 1801 

 (W). Mt. Rainier, Glacier Basin, 1925, /. M. Grant 416 (F). 



The sorediate-farinose podetia, bearing normal regular shaped cups, 

 help to distinguish this Cladonia. 



\7.Cladoniajoliacea (Huds.) Willd. Fl. Berol. Prodro. 362. 1787. 

 Lichen foliacens Huds. Fl. Angl. 457. 1762. 

 Cladonia foliaceaysLT. alcicornis (Lightf.) Schaer. 



Primary thallus persistent and very conspicuous, greenish gray or olive- 

 buff (R), consisting of large leaf like, concave squamules, ascending, closely 

 clustered, with deeply laciniate margins, black fibrils sometimes appear on 

 the margins, underside white or cream colored, this underside shows up 

 very plainly in dried specimens. Podetia concolorous with the primary 

 thallus, short, cylindrical, hollow, scattered, erect, cortex, subcontinuous or 

 areolate, rarely squamulose toward the base; cupbearing or cupless, cups 

 small, irregular, margin almost entire to dentate, proliferate. Apothecia 

 on margin of cups, rather rare ; disk brown or brick red. KOH — , or faintly 

 yellowish brown, P+, orange or brick red. 



On soil or decaying logs : Pierce Co. : Mt. Rainier, Moraine Park Trail, 

 3300 ft., 1940, 2992; trail to Seattle Park, 4000 ft., 1940, 3056. Yakima 

 Co. : Dewey Lake, 4800 ft., 1940, 2771. Okanogan Co., Twisp Trail, 5000 

 ft, 1931, 1307. Mason Co.: Mt. Elinor, 1912, Foster 2118 (W). 



The persistent, large and conspicuous, leaf-like squamules of the pri- 

 mary thallus make this an easy species to recognize. 



18. Cladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad. Spic. Fl. Germ. 107. 1794. 

 Lichen furcatus Huds. Fl. Angl. 458. 1762. 



Primary thallus soon disappearing, pale greenish gray or brown, con- 

 sisting of small to medium sized, elongated, narrow, lobed squamules, mar- 

 gins crenate or sinuate, but only seen in young plants. Podetia olive-buff 

 (R), greenish gray, or reddish brown, usually clustered, erect, slender, 

 cylindrical, or subcylindrical, rather intricately dichotomously or radiately 

 branched, often with corymbose clustered tips that are obtuse, acute, or 

 attenuate, axils irregularly gaping and sometimes dilated, cortex continu- 

 ous or areolate, sparingly squamulose or entirely without squamules ; cups 

 entirely absent. Apothecia small to medium sized, borne on the tips of the 

 branches of the podetia; disk pale brown, brown, or reddish brown. 

 KOH—, P+, brick red. 



On soil, on thin layer of soil over rock, or rarely on decaying wood: 

 Pacific Co. : Long Beach, 1940, 2766. San Juan Co. : San Juan Island, Pt. 

 Caution, 1928, 2068; Friday Harbor, 1940, 3213. Clallam Co. : Lake Suth- 

 erland, 590 ft., 1931, 1026. Thurston Co.: Gate, 1940, 2964. King Co.: 

 Edgewood, 300 ft., 1931, 1820. Clallam Co. : Port Angeles, Bird's, 1914, 



