CONIOCYBE | CALICIACEE ll 
The thallus is more or less effuse, and frequently infertile. The 
apothecia, when present, are numerous, and scattered or crowded ; 
the stalks long and more or less flexuose. 
Hab. On the roots of decayed trees and on dead twigs, occasion- 
ally on the ground and on decayed mosses, rarely on rocks in shady 
places.— Distr. General throughout England, rare in Wales, in 8. and 
Central Scotland, and in E. Ireland.—B. M. Near Shanklin, I. of 
Wight; Lyndhurst, and near Menstrie, New Forest, and Blackwater, 
Hants; Esher, Surrey; Langford, near Shalford Common, and 
Walthamstow, Essex; Bury, Suffolk; near Alfrick, Malvern Wells, 
and Little Malvern, Worcestershire; Oswestry and Church Stretton, 
Shropshire; near Barmouth, Merionethshire; Forden, Montgomery- 
shire; Peel, I. of Man; South Wingfield, Derbyshire; Brantsdale, 
Yorkshire; Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumberland; near Gateshead, 
Durham; Calderbank, near Glasgow; Falls of Moness, near Aber- 
feldy, and Blair Athole, Perthshire. 
Form fulva Fr. Lich. Eur. p. 382 (1831]).—Stalk short and 
rather stout ; capitulum hemispherical ; otherwise similar to the 
species—Mudd Man. p. 262; Cromb. in Grevillea xv. p. 14. 
Var. fulva Scher. Enum. p. 175 (1850); Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, 
p- 100. Mucor fulvus L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1658 (1763). 
Only a form of the species; transition states have been observed 
on the same specimen. 
Hab. On dead stems and mosses on walls, and on the ground in 
upland tracts.—Distr. Somewhat rare in W. England and Central 
Scotland.—B. M. Garryside, Blair Athole, Perthshire. 
2. C. sulphurea Nyl. ex Cromb. in Grevillea xv. p. 14 
(1886).—Thallus effuse, powdery, very thin, greyish or greyish- 
white, often obsolete. Apothecia small, sulphur-pulverulent ; 
stalk short and slender; capitulum minute, globose, the sporal 
mass sulphur-yellow ; spores minute, 2°5-3 » in diameter.—C. 
Furfuracea f. sulphurella Fr. Lich. Eur. p. 382 (1831); Mudd 
Man. p. 262; var. sulphurella Scher. Enum. p. 175 (1850) ; 
Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 14; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 47; ed. 3, p. 46. 
Lichen sulphureus Retz. in Vet. Acad. Handl. 1769, p. 249. 
Differs from the preceding in the more scanty, lighter-coloured 
thallus, and in the brightly-coloured apothecia. 
Hab. On decaying trunks of old oaks in wooded upland tracts. 
—B. M. New Forest, Hants; Brantsdale, Yorkshire; Teesdale, 
Durham. 
3. C. pallida Fr. Sched. Crit. i. p. 3 (1824).— Thallus very 
thin, powdery, white, often obsolete. Apothecia small; stalk 
moderate in size, stoutish, whitish or yellow, rarely brownish 
above ; capitulum globose or hemispherical, the sporal mass 
white or pale-brownish ; spores rather large, 4-10 » in diameter.— 
Mudd Man. p. 262; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 14; Leight. Lich. 
Fl. p. 47; ed. 3, p. 46. Calicium pallidum Pers. in Ust. Ann. 
Bot. vii. p. 20, t. 3, figs. 1-2 (1794). ©. peronellum Ach. Meth. 
