438 CYCLOCARPINEX [CLADONTA 
The granular-like areole mark the difference between this form 
and C. furcata to which it bears a strong resemblance. 
Hab. On moist peaty ground in subalpine tracts——B. M. Upper 
Glen Dee, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 
17. C. lepidota Nyl. in Not. Sillsk. Faun. & FI. Fenn. Foérh. 
n. ser. v. p. 176 (1866) (non Ach.).—Primary thallus of large, 
crenate squamules, pale-glaucous above, areole more or less beset 
with large squamules at the blackened pale-spotted base, the 
scyphi narrow, irregular, difform or cristate (K + yellow, CaCl —). 
Apothecia small, conglomerate brown; spores fusiform-oblong, 
9-15 p long, 3-4 p» thick.—Cromb. Monogr. i. p. 19. 
Distinguished by the large squamules. The species has’ been 
recorded by Wainio (Clad. Univ. ii. p. 159 (1894) ) as C. gracilescens. 
He includes Cenomyce gonorega f{. lepidota Ach. Syn. Lich. p. 259 
(1814) as a form of C. degenerans (tom. cit. p. 153). The species has 
not been recorded in the British Isles, only the following form. 
Form hypophylla Cromb. in Grevillea xi. p. 113 (1883) & 
Monogr. i. p. 148.—Basal squamules rather large, crowded, 
greyish-white or greenish-grey, white beneath, rising from a 
stalk-like base which is often black, with scattered white spots ; 
podetia short or long, more or less squamose, ascyphous but 
often irregularly branching, and foliaceous, the edges studded 
with brown ovoid or subglobose pyenidia.—C. degenerans f. 
hypophylla Nyi. Lich. Scand. p. 54 (1861); Mudd Brit. Clad. 
p. 18. 
Ezxsicc. Mudd n. 9 pro parte & Clad. n. 39. 
A véry peculiar form, the podetia having the appearance of 
enlarged squamules. It approaches very near to some growth forms 
of C. cervicornis. Mudd's C. cervicornis f. prodiga belongs possibly 
to this form (Brit. Clad. p. 4). 
Hab. On the ground among rocks in uplanddistricts.—Distr. Not 
uncommon where it occurs in §. and N. England and Wales, 8. 
Scotland and among the Grampians.—B. M. Dartmoor, Devon ; 
Llanwrtydd Wells, Brecknockshire; Plinlimmon, Cardiganshire ; 
Dolgelly, Rhewgreidden and Maes-y-garnedd, Merioneth; Carnedd 
Dafydd and Bettws- -y-Coed, Carnarvonshire; Battersby, Ingleby and 
Ayton Moors, Clev eland, Yorkshire ; Ennerdale, Cumberland; New 
Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Dennyat, near Stirling; Craig Calliach, 
Perthshire; Lion’s Face and Glen Quoich, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; 
Slieve More, Achill Island, Mayo. 
C. cervicornis Scher. Enum. p. 195 (1850) pro parte.— 
renee thallus of large crowded squamules variously multifid 
ascending, firm, crenate, dark olive- or glaucous-green above, 
whitish or brownish-black beneath ; podetia short, corticate, 
smooth or uneven, scyphiferous, the sey phi simple or irregularly 
proliferous from the margins, more rarely from the centre of the 
scyphus, sometimes squamulose (K + indistinctly yellowish or —, 
CaCl. —). Apothecia small, reddish or blackish-brown; spores 
