454 CYCLOCARPINE® [ CLADONIA 
land; New Galloway, Kirkeudbrightshire; Appin, Argyll; Rannoch, 
Perthshire; Sidlaw Hills, Forfarshire ; Loch Linnhe, Invernessshire ; 
Kelly’s Glen, near Dublin; Killarney, Kerry ; Leenane, Connemara, 
Galway. 
Form tumida Cromb. in Grevillea xi. p. 114 (1883) & 
Monogr. i. p. 159.—Podetia turgid ventricose, the axils and 
apices dilated, infundibuliform. 
Hab. On moist shady rocks among mosses in upland tracts.— 
Distr. Local and searce in S. England, N. Wales, 8. Scotland and in 
the S.W. Highlands.—B. M. High Rocks, near Tunbridge Wells, 
Kent; Dolgelly, Merioneth; New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; 
Barcaldine, Argyll. 
Basal squamules small, persistent crowded. 
31. C. cespiticia Floerk. Clad. Comm. p. 8 (1828).—Primary 
thallus persistent, the squamules mostly crowded, rather small, 
irregular, somewhat laciniately divided or crenate, sometimes 
ascending, pale-green above, white beneath ; podetia very short, 
naked, cylindrical, ascyphous, simple or divided (K —, CaCl —). 
Apothecia conglomerate, sometimes apparently sessile on the 
leaflets, flesh-coloured or reddish ; spores oblong, 8-16 p long, 
3-4 p thick.—Cromb. in Grevillea xi. p. 14 & Monogr, i. p. 159. 
C. squamosa var. ceespititia Nyl. in Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. sér. 3, 
i. p. 284 (1856); Mudd Man. p. 57 & Brit. Clad. p. 21 ; subsp. 
cespiticia Nyl. Syn. Lich. p. 210 (1860); Cromb. Lich. Brit. 
p- 20. C. pyaidata var. cxspiticia Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 60; ed. 3, 
p. 57. Baomyces cespiticius Pers. in Ust. Ann. Bot. vii. p. 155 
(1794). Lichen cespititivs Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1796 (1807). 
Scyphophora cespiticia 8. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. i. p. 417 (1821); 
Hook. in Sm. Engl. FI. v. p. 236. 
Exsicc. Bohl. n. 72; Larb. Cesar. n.9; Leight. n. 368 ; 
Mudd Clad. n. 44. 
Approaches C. squamosa in the decorticate character of the very 
short podetium. No scyphi are formed, and it is either pervious or 
closed at the apex and surmounted by the conglomerate apothecia. 
At times these are almost sessile on the basal squamules, which gives 
it the appearance of a Beomyces. 
Hab, Among mosses on the trunks of trees, on ricks or thatched 
roofs, or on the ground in maritime and inland tracts.—Distr. General 
and common throughout Great Britain, rare in Ireland and the 
Channel Islands.—B. M. Belcroute Bay, Jersey; Guernsey; St. 
Breward, Cornwall; on the Dart and near Becky Falls, Devon; 
New Forest, Hants; St. Leonard’s Forest, Eridge and Tilgate, 
Sussex; Oaksey, Wilts; Barmouth, Merioneth; Ludlow and Stable- 
ford, Shropshire; Malvern, Worcestershire; near Matlock, Derby- 
shire; Beaumaris, Anglesea; Cliflrigg, Cleveland, Yorkshire; New 
Galloway, Kirkeudbrightshire ; Appin, Argyll; Rannoch, Perthshire ; 
Countesswells Wood, near Aberdeen; Loch Linnhe, Invernessshire ; 
Dunscombe Wood, Cork; Killarney, Kerry. 
