412 CYCLOCARPINEX [ STEREOCAULON 
warted, olive-brown, somewhat shining, containing Stigonema. 
Apothecia very rare, small, lateral, plane or somewhat convex, 
brownish ; spores elongate-fusiform, 3—7-septate, 26-46 p long, 
3-4 p thick.—Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 17 & Monogr. i. 120; Leight. 
Lich. Fl. p. 78; ed. 3, p. 71. S. paschale var. denudatum Mudd 
Man. p. 66 (1861). Lichenoides non tubulosum, cinereum ramosum 
totum crustaceum Dill. in Ray Syn. ed. 3, p. 66, n. 11 (1724) 
(specimen in Buddle Hort. Sice. ii. fol. 2, n. 7, in Herb. Sloane). 
Coralloides crispum et botryforme alpinum Dill. Hist. Muse. 
p. 114, t. 17, fig. 33 (1741). 
Ezxsicc. Croall n. 499 ; Johns. n. 211; Larb. Lich. Hb. n. 244. 
Easily distinguished from other British species by the subpeltate 
squamules and by the thin squamulose podetia near the tips. When 
larger and more robust it is f. validwm Jaur. (ex Fr. Lich. Eur. p. 205 
(1831); Cromb. Monogr. i. p.120). Squamules and podetia are rarely 
somewhat sorediate (f. capitatwm Flot. ex Koerb. Syst. Lich. Germ. 
p- 13 (1855) ; Cromb. 1. c.). 
Hab. On rocks and boulders in upland and alpine situations.— 
Distr. General and frequent in the more mountainous districts of 
Great Britain and Ireland.—B. M. Cawsand Beacon, Sharpitor Rock 
and Mis Tor, Dartmoor, Devon; near Dolgelly and Cader Idris, 
Merioneth; Capel Curig, Pen-y-Gwryd, Moel Siabod, Llyn Idwal and 
Snowdon, Carnarvonshire; Anglesea; Mynydd-y-Myfyr, Shropshire ; 
Falim Clints and Cronkley Scar, Teesdale, Durham; Staveley Head, 
Westmoreland; Ennerdale, Cumberland; near Galloway, Kirkeud- 
brightshire; Ben Cruachan, Argyll; Ben Ledi, Ben Lawers and 
Rannoch Moor, Perthshire; Sidlaw Hills and Clova, Forfarshire ; 
Glen Candlic, Craig Coinnoch, Cairn Drochit and Ben-naboord, 
Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Ben Nevis, Invernessshire; Hills of Apple- 
cross, Rossshire; Lairg, Sutherland; Killarney, Kerry; Kylemore, 
Connemara, Galway. 
Var. pulvinatum Th. Fr. Ster. & Pil. Comm. p. 27 (1857).— 
Podetia densely czspitose, short, fastigiately and intricately 
branched, forming cushion-like growths, the squamules turgid, 
crowded.—Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xx. p. 272 (1882) & Monogr. i. 
p- 121. St. botryosum Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 581; Hook. in Sm. 
Engl. Fl. v. p. 233. St. paschale var. pulvinatum Scher. Lich. 
Helv. Spicil. p. 274 (1833); var. botryosum Mudd Man. p. 66 
(1861). St. tomentosum var. botryosum Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 17 
(1870); Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 78; ed. 3, p. 71. 
Easice. Johns. n. 212; Leight. n. 387. 
Differs from the species in the short congested podetia and the 
somewhat confluent podetial squamules. 
Hab. On rocks and boulders in mountainous regions.—Disér. 
Rather local in N. England, N. Wales, among the Scottish Grampians 
and in S.W. Ireland.—B. M. Cader Idris, Merioneth; Llyn Howel 
and Snowdon, Carnarvonshire; Castleton, Derbyshire; Teesdale, 
Durham; Ben Lawers, Craig Calliach and near Loch Eagle, Rannoch, 
Perthshire; Ben Macdhui, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; Ben Nevis, 
Invernessshire ; Connor Cliffs, Kerry. 
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