THE LICHEN FLORA OF THE SANTA CRUZ PENTNSULA III 



3. CLADONIA FURCATA (Huds.) Schrad. 



Lichen furcatus Hudson, Fl. Angl. 458. 1762. 

 Cladonia Jurcala Schrader, Spic. Fl. Germ. 107. 1794. 

 C7a(f<?;/m/«/'ca/a Tuck. Syn. N. Am. Lich. I: 247. 1882. 

 Cladonia furcata Wainio, Monog. Clad. Univ. 1: 316. 1887. 

 Cladonia furcata Fink, The Bryologist, 7: 54. 1904. 

 Cladonia racemosa Hoffma.nUjDentsch.Yl. 2: 144. 1795. 

 Cladonia furcata racemosa Floerke, Clad. Comm. 152. 1828. 

 Cladonia furcata racemosa Wainio, Monog. Clad. Univ. 1: 323. 



1887. 

 Cladonia furcata racemosa Fink, The Bryologist, 7 : 55. 1904. 

 Cladonia furcata racemosa Herre, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 7: 391, 



1906, in part. 

 Cenomyce racemosa var. pinnata Floerke, in Schleicheri Cat. Absol. 



47. 1821. 

 Cladonia furcata pinnata Wainio, Monog. Clad. Univ. 1 : 332. 1887. 

 Cladonia furcata pinnata Yirik, The Bryo\o^st,*7: 56. 1904. 

 Clado7tia chlorophcea prolifera Herre, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 7: 388. 



1906, in part. 

 Cladonia squamosa Herre, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 7: 390. 1906, in 



part. 



var. RACEMOSA Floerke. 



Primary thallus at first of tiny scattered squamules, these even- 

 tually quite long, leafy, lobed, with crenate-lobulate margin; pale 

 green above, varying to pale brown or sometimes whitish; white 

 beneath. 



Podetia fruticose, rather short to elongated or very much elon- 

 gated, slender to rather coarse, more or less cylindrical, the lower por- 

 tion dying, but growth continuing above; branches spreading, curved, 

 from sparingly dichotomously branched becoming intricately 

 branched, the branches recurved; surface smooth, becoming more or 

 less roughened, or, in forma phyllophora, more or less thickly clothed 

 with squamules or leafy thalline lobules; usually more or less 

 thickened at the axils which are often gaping or perforated; tips 

 of branches very slender and subulate,or now and then thickened and 

 stumpy; color whitish, very pale greenish-gray, to brown. 



