cr.vixiMA.j cr.AiioMi;r. ]o') 



the apices aiii] the axils iiifiindihulifoiiH, pervious, the apertures 

 cristate at the margins (K — , CaCl— ). Apothecia small, brown or 

 reddish. — Cromb. Lich. iirit. p. 20; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. Go, ed. 3, 

 p, 01. — Chtdonia furctita u. cris^pata Mudd, Man. p. o", Bnt. Clad, 

 p. 22. Biromijccs turhinatus ^. crisputus Ach. Metb. (I^OIJ) p. 341. 

 CoruUoides perforatum minus, molle et teane Dill. Muse. 90, t. 10. 

 f. 22 B.—Brit. Kcs. : Mudd, Clad. n. 45. 



Though regarded by some authors as the type of C. furcatd, the 

 glabrous proliferous podetii, the characters of their apices and axils, and 

 the cristate margins of the apertures at ouce separate it from all the 

 varieties and forms of that species and reuder it specitically distinct. In 

 this country the apothecia are rare, though the spermugones are not 

 unfrequent. 



Ilcib. On the ground among mosses in upland and subalpine moorland 

 districts. — Distr. Local and rare in X. England and among the Gram- 

 pians, Scotland. — B. M. : Kildale Moor and Loimsdale, Cleveland, York- 

 shire. Ben-y-gloe Mountains, Perthshire; Beu-nahoord and Upper Glen 

 Dee, Braemar. Aberdeenshire. 



Subsp. C. furcatiformis ^'yl. I'lora, 1>74, p. 318. — rodetiu 

 slender, very much braucbed, ctespitoso-t'ruticulose, the scypbi cris- 

 tato-ciliate at the margins. — Cromb. Grevillea, xi. p. 113. — Brit. 

 Ears. : Mudd, n. 12. 



Distinguished a? a subspecies by the characters of the podetia and 

 their scyphi. The only British specimen .seen is not very typical, and is 

 quite sterile. 



Hab. On the ground among mosses in upland districts. — Distr. Appa- 

 rently extremely local and scarce in X. Kngland, though it no doubt 

 occurs also in the Highlands of Scotland.— B. M. : Ingleljy Park, Cleve- 

 land, Yorkshire. 



24. C. cenotea Scbfer. Spic. (1S23) p. 35. — Tballus nearly efo- 

 liolose or with small lobato-crenate squamules at the base : podetia 

 cylindrical, -whitish or greyish-pulverulent, repeatedly proliferous, 

 the axils and apices often dilated, scyphoid and peivious, the aper- 

 tures (usually brownish within j denticulate (K — , CaCl — ). Apo- 

 thecia small, brown or pale ; spores moderate. — Cromb. Grevillea, 

 xi. p. 113. — Bofomyces c^noteus Ach. Meth. (1S03) p. 345. 



The pulverulent podetia, -s^-ith thpir pervious axils and apices, readilv 

 distinguish this from C. crisputa. They are glabrous and corticate at the 

 base, and from being repeatedly proliferous have a branched appearance. 

 In the few British specimens seen the apothecia are very rare. 



Hub. On putrid stumps of trees in wooded upland situations. — Distr. 

 Very local and scarce among the Grampians, Scotland, where it is con- 

 fined apparently to some of the remnauts of the old Caledonian Forest. — 

 B. M. : Black SVood of liauuoch, Perthshire ; Ballochbuie Forest. Brae- 

 uiar, Aberdeenshire. 



/3. glauca Xvl. in Zw. Lich. Heidelb. (1&S3) p. 12. — Podetia 

 moderate, glaucous, furfuraceotts or here and there spiinklcd with 



