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sachusetts, Dr. Jacob Porter ; Russell-, etc.; as of Rhode Island, 



Mr. Bennett. It was found in Japan, by Mr. Wright. A 



reduced, more or less incrassated, and glaucescent state (Lick. 

 Amer. exs. n. 132) occurs in the alpine region of the White 

 Mountains ; and is scarcely different from Hook. & Thorns. 



Herb. Ind. Or. n. 2129, from the Himmalayah. Podetia of the 



coast-lichen now eight lines in diameter, and five where the 

 branches begin. The plant, which is too remarkable to be 

 passed over, occurs now with much the habit, and the cups of 

 C. gracilis v. hybrida ; but these cups are very commonly more 

 or less perforate, and pass at length into tips quite like those of 

 C. uncialis, b, in its more turgid conditions. The herbarium- 

 name first-given is credited also to Delise (Herb. Spreng.); I 

 retain the name by which the lichen was first described. 



Ser. III. Coccinece. Apothecia scarlet. Podetia from 

 yellowish or greenish more or less finally gray. 



24. C. Cornucopioides (L.) Fr. ; thallus squamulose, the 

 squamules small to middling-sized and now ample, crenate- 

 lobate; podetialong-turbinate; cartilagineous-corticate; smooth 

 becoming warty, or now even squamulose (a) or very commonly 

 more or less powdery above (b. pleurota, Schser.) from pale-yel- 

 lowish most often ashy-greenish ; the dilated cups cyathiform ; 



apothecia scarlet; or now yellow (c. ochrocarpia). Fr. L. E. 



p. 236. Tuckerm. Lich. Amer. exs. n. 37. Nyl. Syn. p. 220. 



On the earth in sterile soils, a, & ft, common. Northern and 

 middle States, Muhlenberg Catal. 1818. Arctic America, Rich- 

 ardson-, Gieseke; Wright. Canada and British Columbia, 

 Macoun. Oregon, Hall Along the mountains southward, as in 



North Carolina, and Georgia, Eavenel. c is rare ; South shore 



of Massachusetts, Willey. 



25. C. bettidiflora (Ach.) Schasr. j thallus squamulose, the 

 squamules from smallish at the base becoming middling-sized 

 above and irregularly much lobed ; podetia elongated ; ventri- 

 cose-cylindrical ; cartilagiueous-corticate ; smooth, clothed more 

 or less densely and imbricated with squamules (a) or the squa- 

 mules more or less entirely wanting (b. Hookeri, Nyl.) finally 

 somewhat branched, and now subulate j ashy-greenish now yel- 

 lowish ; cups small ; apothecia scarlet. Fl. Clad. p. 95. Fr. 



L. E. p. 237. Nyl. Syn. p. 221. 





