THE LICHEN FLORA OF THE SANTA CRUZ PENINSULA III 



3. CLADONIA FURCATA (Huds.) Schrad. 



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

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

 Cladonia furcata 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 Hoffmann, Deutsch. Fl. 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 Fink, The Bryologist, 7: 56. 1904. 

 Cladonia chlorophaa 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 pate greenish-gray, to brown. 



