236 LICHENES. [Scyphophorus. 



of the C. uncialis. The branches too are more twisted and zigzag; 

 Acharius says they also are more brittle. The colour is a green- 

 ish-grey. The numerous, sharp, tapering, upright branches are 

 tipped with brownish-black ; of which colour also are the small solitary 

 round apothecia found at the extremities of some of them." Sm. 



5. C. furcata, Hoffm. (forked Cladonia); podetia elongated 

 smooth (or leafy, especially at the base) livid or brownish-grey 

 dichotomous the axils without perforations, branches very slen- 

 der curved with the apices forked and divergent, apothecia 

 brown. — Cenomyce furcata, Ach. Syn.p. 276. — Lichen furcatus, 

 Huds. AngLp. 458. — Cladonia fruticosa, d. Schcer, Lich. Helv. 

 Spicil.p. 451., Lich.Exsicc. n. 81.— Dill. Muse. t. 16. /. 27.— 

 A. (young) B. C. (old) according to Schcerer — . subulata ; 

 podetia elongated glabrous pale dichotomous the axils perfor- 

 ated and open, the apices of the branches patent short rigid. 

 Cenomyce furcata, (3. Ach. Syn.p. 276. — Cladonia fruticosa, y. 

 Schcer. Lich. Helv. Spicil. p. 40.— Lichen subul itus, Linn. — 

 Dill. Muse. t. 16. f. 26. A. (sterile) B. C. (fertile) according to 

 Schcerer. — y. spinosa ; podetia elongated smooth at length 

 scaly whitish-green at length inflated curved branched, branches 

 lax subsecund the apices divergent spinulose, apothecia pale- 

 brown. Cenomyce racemosa, Ach. Syn. p. 275. Hook. Fl. Scot. 

 P. II. p. 64. — Lichen spinosus, Huds. — Lightf. — Cladonia furcata, 

 var. recur ia, Hoffm. — C. furcata, (3. recurva, Sch&r. Lich. Helv* 

 Spicil. p. 40.— Dill. Muse. t. 16. f 25. Ach. 



On the ground in heathy and bushy places, frequent. 



38. Scyphophorus. Fee. De Cand., (part of). Cup-Lichen. 



Thallus foliaceous, imbricated. Podetia fistulose, cylindrical, 

 dilated upwards, bearing cups, or attenuated and subulate : cups 

 closed with a membrane or cleft at the extremity, often rayed 

 in a somewhat digitated manner, the rays all fertile. Apothecia 

 (cephalodia) convex, capituliform, not bordered, free in the cen- 

 tre beneath, arranged around the edges of the cup, the margin 

 reflexed, uniform within. Fee. — Name ; <ftcu(pos, a cup and 

 pgo, to bear, admirably expressive of the fruit-bearing portions 

 of this Genus of Lichens, of which the Lichen pyxidatus of Lin- 

 naeus may be considered the type. — There being a distinct folia- 

 ceous spreading thallus, M. Fee considers the stalks as more 

 essentially belonging to the fructification and more truly deserv- 

 ing the name of pod tia than the same part in Cladonia: but 

 the last species of Cladonia, (C. furcata,) has often a small 

 spreading thallus, and in this particular connects the two genera. 



* Apothecia brown. 



1. S. ccBspititius, (green leafy Cup-Lichen); thallus clustered 

 ascending leafy pinnatifid cut and crisped bright-green above 

 white beneath, podetia from the disk of the leaf fleshy (?) dilated 



