170 LICHE.VACEI. [CLADONIA. 



multifid and crenate ; podetia somewhat thickish, pulverulent and 

 squamulose, either digitately branched or with narrow proliferous 

 scyphi at the apices. Apothecia moderate, or smaller aud conglo- 

 merate. Cromb. Grevillea, xv. p. 46. Bceomyces digitati.is /?. foro- 

 natun Ach. Meth. (1803) p. 333. Cladonia diyitata var. macilenta 

 f. polydactijla (Florke) Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 70, ed. 3, p. 64, et forma 

 coronata p. (55. Cladoniti cocci/era rj. macilenta A. polydactyla 

 Mudd, Man. p. 62, Brit. Clad. p. 32. SL-yphophorus digitatus Sm. 

 Eng. Fl. v. p. 240. Cenom>/ce diyitata Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 63. 

 Lichen digitals Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 874; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. 

 p. 39 ; Eug. Bot. 2439. Lichen pyxidatns e. digitatus Huds. Fl. 

 Angl. p. 457. Ooralloides cornucopioides inoanum, scyphis cristatis 

 Dill. Muse. 94, t. 15. f. 17 A.BHt, Exs. : Leight. n. 274; Mudd, 

 nos. 27, 28, Clad. nos. 77, 78, 72 pro parte ; Bohl. nos., 7, 8. 



Often confused with C. digitatn, from which it is well distinguished by 

 the podetia. It differs from the other varielies and forms of this species 

 in the more developed basal leaflets, and in the more or less squamuloso- 

 foliaceous podetia, which are either ascyphous and digitately branched, or 

 apically narrowly scyphiferous and proliferous. It usually occurs well- 

 fruited. 



Hab. Among mosses on the ground, on boulders, and about the roots 

 of old trees in wooded upland districts. Distr. General and usually 

 plentiful wheie it occurs in the hilly and mountainous tracts of Great 

 Britain, and probably also of Ireland. B. M. : Epping Forest, Essex ; 

 St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex ; New Forest, Hants ; Ivy Bridge and near 

 Totness, Devonshire ; near Bodmiu, Cornwall ; Charnwood Forest, 

 Leicestershire; Malvern, Worcestershire; Bannouth, Dolgelly, and 

 Aberdovey, Merionethshire ; Baysdale, Ingleby, Lounsdale, and Kildale, 

 Yorkshire; Windermere, Westmoreland ; Ashgill, Cumberland. New 

 Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Barcaldine, Argyleshire ; Glen Lochay, 

 Falls of Bruar, and Loch Rannoch, Perthshire ; Clova, Forfarshire ; 

 Counte-sswells Woods, near Aberdeen ; Cra'g Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeen- 

 shire ; Rothiemurchus Woods, Inverness-shire. Killarney, co. Kerry ; 

 Conuemara, co. Galway ; Devis Mt., co. Antrim. 



Form 1. ventricosa Cromb. Grevillea, xv. (1886) p. 46. Podetia 

 thick, somewhat turgid above, narrowly scyphiferous, variously 

 branched at the margins. Apothecia not seen rightly developed. 

 Lichen ventricostis Huds. Fl. Angl. (1762) p. 457; Lightf. Fl. Scot. 

 ii. p. 875 ; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 38. Coralloides cornucopioides 

 incnnum, scyphis cristatis Dill. Muse. 94, t. 15. f. 17s, c. Though 

 there is no specimen of Lichen ventricosus in any of the old herbaria, 

 yet from their references to the figure of Dillenius there is little 

 doubt that this was the plant intended by the above authors. 



This seems to be only a larger and thicker form of var. coronata, some- 

 what analogous to form momtrosa of the preceding species. As Lightfoot 

 /. c. remarks, " it resembles in miniature a pollard tree with its lop on." 

 In the only recent British specimen seen referable to this form, as in that 

 in Herb. Dill., there are no apothecia visibly but only decelerate spermo- 

 gones. 



Hab. On peaty soil in upland moorlands. Distr. Local and scarce in 



