152 - TASMANIAN LICHENS. 



whitish or pallescent, scyphi simple, regular, or deformed. 

 Apothecia bright red, discrete, or conglomerate. 



Hab. Oldfield, Hook. FL Tasm.; Nyl.; Krplhb.; Mount 

 Wellington, Brown, Cr. 



It may be questioned whether the Tasmanian specimens 

 thus named are not C. cormicopioides , var. Tasmanica, which is 

 a very polymorphous variety as found in Victoria. 



20. C. Flcerkeana, Fr., squamnles at the base of the podetia, 

 crenato incised or crenate, few or evanescent ; podetia white, 

 1 to \\ inch high, corticate, smooth, obtuse at apex, often 

 obsoletely scyphophorous or incrassate, or briefly divided. 

 Apothecia often conglomerate. 



Hab. Falls of the Meander, Western Mountains, Archer, 

 Hook. Fl. Tasm.; Krplhb. 



21. C. digitata, Hffm., thallus of folioles, pallide virescenfc, 

 crenato incised, or lobate and crenate, underneath white or 

 albid, and there generally pulverulent podetia albido; pulveru- 

 lent, without folioles, cylindrical, 1 to 2 inches high, simple or 

 rarely divided at the apex, scyphophorous, scyphi with margin 

 either denticulate, or sub-inflexed, or variously divided, and 

 digitato proliferous. Apothecia bright scarlet, small, or 

 confluent. 



Hab. Cheshunt, Archer, Hook. Fl. Tasm. 



Var. macilenta, Hffm. = C. macilenta of Babington, thallus 

 smaller or squamulose, podetia |^ to 1 inch or a little more, 

 slender, simple, or shortly divided at the apex, ascyphous, 

 obtuse, rarely with narrow, irregular scyphi. Apothecia con- 

 fluent. 



Hab. Cheshunt, Archer, Hook. Fl. Tasm.; Krplhb. 



F. seductrix, Del., folioles more evolved, virescent, multifid, 

 crenate; podetia narrow, cylindrical, simple. Apothecia 

 minute. 



Hab. on earth. Brown's Eiver, Oldfield, Hook. Fl. Tasm.; 

 Nyl. 



Sub-genus Cladina, Nyl. 



Thallus leafless, podetia without scyphi, repeatedly branched, 

 more or less smooth. Apothecia terminal. 



22. C. rangiferina, Hffm., cinerascent, 2 to 6 inches high, 

 verruculoso, scabrous, sub-tomentose, terminal branches sub- 

 corymbose, fastigiate, apices sub-secund, nodding, K + G — • 



Hab. on earth. Hook. L. J. Bot.; Cunni?igha?ny Gunn, etc.. 

 Hook. Fl. Tasm. 



Var. Sylvatica, Hffm., pale or straw coloured, glabrous, ter- 

 minal branches radiato cymose, fastigiate, apices sub-secund, 

 nodding, K f yC +. 



