CTADOXIA.] CLATIONIKT. 147 



Eoini 3. pleolepidea Xy]. Lich. Scaiid. (1801) p. 54. — I'udctia 

 simple or sparingly branclied abovo, usually somewhat curved, 

 ascyphous, densely covered witii rigid s(]uamules. Apother-ia nume- 

 rous, dark-brown. — Cromb. Urevillea, xii. p. ill. 



The podetiii, which Nylander (/. c. ) describes as being 2-3 in. long, are 

 with us much smaller, from A tn 1 in. Occasionally, where less squamu- 

 lose, they are white-punctate. In the two specimens gathered the apu- 

 thecia are more or less aggi-egate. 



Hab. Among .short mosses on the ground in alpine places. — l)it>tr. 

 Very local and scarce among the X. (irampians, ^Scotland. — ]>. !M. : Near 

 the summit of Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 



Var. /5. anomaea Fldrke, Clad. (1828) p. 43. — Podetia short, 

 slender, rngose and more or less squamulose ; scyphi usually ra- 

 diately divided. Apothecia either sessile or pedicellate, dark brown. 

 — Mudd, Brit. Clad. p. 18 : Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 20 ; Leight. Lick 

 Fl. p. 04, ed. 3, p. 00. — Cladonia gracilis h. degenerans c. anomcea 

 Mudd, Man. p. oo. Sciiphophorus anomcfus Sm. Eiig. PI. v. p. 238. 

 Cenonn/ce anomo'a Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 63. Lichen anomceus Eug. 

 Bot. t. 1807. Brpomgcrs anonvrus Ach. Meth. (1803) p. 349. — 

 Brit. Exs. : Mudd, Clad. n. 32 (atypical). 



Thi.s variety is distinguished by the podetia, which ai-e from \ io \ in. 

 high, being either densely or partiallj^ covered with squamules, and by 

 the form of their scyphi. As observed, however, by Nylander (Syn. 

 p. 200), the podetia are scarcely scyphiferous, but rather radiato-partite 

 (cfr. Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 552). The apothecia are either simple or con- 

 glomerate, becoming in age somewhat large. 



Hah. On the ground on heaths and on rotten wood in upland situa- 

 tions. — Disfr. Apparently local and scarce in S.W. and N. England, in S. 

 Scotland, and among the Grampians ; no doubt overlooked elsewhere. — 

 B. M. : Lakenham, Norfolk ; near Hurstpierpoint, Sussex ; Dartmoor, 

 S.Devon; Malvern, Worcestershire ; Burton Head, Cleveland, Yorkshire. 

 Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh; Craig CaUiach, Perthshire ; (ilen Cal- 

 later and (Tien Quoich, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 



Subsp. 1. C. trachyna Xyl. cc Xorxd. X'"ot. SiilLsk, pro F. et Fl. 

 Fenn. Forh. n. s. x. (1873) p. 319. — Podetia elongate, or mode- 

 rate, cylindrical, squamulose, scyphiferous, sordid-whitish ; scyphi 

 denticulato- proliferous and radiato-cristate at the margins. Apo- 

 thecia minute, brown. — Cromb. (rrevillea, xi. p. 113. — CJadonia 

 degenerans f. trachyna Mudd. Brit, Clad. p. 18. B<vomi^ccs trachynns 

 Ach. Meth. (1803/ p. 348. 



From the preceding varieties and forms this differs in the form of the 

 .scvphi, which give it .•^^omewhat the appearance of C. crispata. This and 

 its general habit seem to entitle it to rank as a subspecies. The podetia 

 are norniallv from 3 to 5 in. long : but they sometimes occur less developed. 

 The apothecia are at length dark brown, but our more elongate states are 

 only spermogoniiferous. 



Huh. On beatliy ground amongst mosses in upland and subalpine 

 regions. — Dixtr. l>ocal and s.-arce among the ^^cottish firampians. — 

 B. -M. : l.'annn-h, Perthshire; Bi'U-nahoord, Braemar, Al)erdeensjiire. 



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