CI.ADO.MA.] 



173 



p. 21 pro parte; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 71 pro parte, ed. 3, p. 65 pro 

 parte. Cladonia coccifara y. FloerJceana Mudd, Man. p. 61 pro 

 parte, Brit. Clad. p. 33 pro parte. 



Closely allied to C. bacillaris, from which it is distinguished by the 

 glabrous corticate podetia, which are often blackish at the base. It is 

 almost always abundantly fertile, and the fine scarlet, often confluent 

 apothecia render it one of our most beautiful species. 



Hub. On peaty ground in subalpine mountainous moorlands. Distr. 

 Local and rare in its typical state, having been found only in a few places 

 in the Scottish Highlands and S.W. Ireland. B. M. : Achrosagan Hill, 

 Appin, Argyleshire ; Craig Calliach, Perthshire ; Head of Glen Callater, 

 Braemar, Aberdeenshire. Killarney, co. Kerry. 



Form trachypoda Nyl. ex Cromb. Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 360. 

 Fodetia rather shorter, more or less verrucoso-squamulose. Cromb. 

 Grevillea, xi. p. 115. Cladonia cocci/era e. macilenta b. carsata 

 Mudd, Brit. Clad. p. 32. To this is also referable Cladonia Floer- 

 keana var. bacillaris Leight. pro parte. Brit. Exs. : Mudd, Clad. 

 n. 71 ; Larb. Lich. Hb. a. 84. 



Usually not rightly distinguished from the type, this differs in the 

 podetia being either partly verrucose or entirely squamulose. Interme- 

 diate states, however, in which the squamules are but sparingly present 

 (though probably from abrasion), are frequent in herbaria. 



Hub. On the ground, generally on peaty soil in upland and subalpine 

 mountainous regions. Distr. Not unfrequent in Great Britain and Ire- 

 laud ; very abundant among the Scottish Grampians. B. M. : Epping 

 Forest, Essex ; Leith Hill, Surrey ; Dartmoor, Devonshire ; Bardon 

 Hill, Leicestershire; Rhewgreidden, Merionethshire; Baysdale, Cleve- 

 land, Yorkshire ; West Allen Carrs, Northumberland. New Galloway, 

 Kirkcudbrightshire; Achrosagan Hill, Appiu, Argyleshire ; Sheriffmuir, 

 near Stirling ; Craig Tulloch and Kannoch, Perthshire ; Canlochan Glen, 

 Clova. Eorf'arshire ; Cairnma 'Earn, Kincardineshire ; Hill of Fare and 

 Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Lairg, Sutherlandshire ; Applecross, 

 Iloss-shire. Doneraile Mts., co. Cork ; Killarney, co. Kerry ; near Kyle- 

 more, co. Galway. 



Nyl. 

 Fl. 



33. CLADINA 



Not. Siillsk. pro F. et 

 Fenn. Forh. n. s. v. (1866) 

 p. 110. Thallus wanting 

 at the base ; podetia 

 fruticulose, very much 

 branched, more or less 

 smooth, glabrous ; scyphi 

 none or narrow. Apo- 

 thecia terminal on the 

 apices of the branches, 

 biatorinc, small, pale or 



brown; spores 8nce, ob- 



'. i ' 



long, simple, colourless; 



thecao, especially the api- 

 res, bluish with iodine. 



Fig. 36. 



ladina ranqiferina Nyl. a, a'. Vertical sections 

 of two apothecia (the lower juvenile), X30. 

 b. Theea find paraphysis, X350. c. Spores, 

 Xf>00. d. Vertical section o^ a spermogone, 

 X-'3<>. f. Sterigmata. and/, spcrmatia. X- r <Ht. 



