].58 IJCHEXAfl I. [CI.ABOVIA. 



Abevdovov and Dolgelly, Meiionetlishiiv ; Cleveland, Yorkshire. Tonir- 

 land, Kirkcudbrig-htslnre ; Appin, Ai'g-vleshire ; Locli Linnlie, luverness- 

 shire. Leenaiie, near Kyleinore, co. Gahvay. 



Subsp. C adspersa Xyl. cv Cromb. Grevillea, xi. (J 883) p. 114. — 

 Podetia moderate, somewhat slender, sqiiamiiloso-furfuraceous, 

 sparingly branched ; branches subsimple, usually recurved, subulate 

 or furcately divided at the apices (K — , CaCl — ). Apothecia small, 

 dark-brown." — CJadonia acUpersa Cromb. Journ. £ot. 1870, p. 360. 

 Cladonia fitrcata var. adspersa Florke, Deutsch. Lich. (1821) 

 n. 198 ; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 01. 



Though regarded by authors as helunging to C.furcata, var. recurva of 

 which it closely approaches, Xylander now refers this to C. sqiiainosa as 

 a subspecies well characterized by the podetia. AVith us, as elsewhere, 

 the apothecia are very rare, but the spermogoues are frequent. 



Ilaf). Among mosses in woods and on shady rocks in upland districts. 

 — IJi-str. Local in England and Ireland ; more general in the Highlands 

 of Scotland. — B. M. : Shanklin Downs, Isle of AVight ; Epping Eorest, 

 Essex ; near Oxford ; Charnwood Eorest, Leicestershire, ^>ew Galloway, 

 Kirkcudbrightshire ; Barcaldine, Argyleshire ; Rannoch, Perthshire ; 

 Inglismaldie "SVocds, Kincardineshire ; Couutesswells, near Aberdeen, and 

 Glen Callater, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Loch Liuuhe, Inverness-shire. 

 Connemara, co. Galway. 



27. C. subsquamosa Xyl. cw Cromb. Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. xvii. 

 (1880) p. 560. — Thallus foliaceo-squamulose at the base; squamules 

 small, inciso-crennte, pale or greyish-green above, white beneath ; 

 podetia somewhat short or more elongate, branched, minutely squa- , 

 mulose in the lower portion, granulate above, fuicate, or radiate- 

 cristate and subcorymbose at the apices (K-|- yellow and then crim- 

 son, CaCl — ). Apothecia small, rtddish-brown. — Cladonia delicata 

 var. sidsc2>(amosa Xvl. ex Leight. Ann. Mag. ^Xat. Hist. ser. 3, xviii. 

 (1866) p. 407 : Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 20 ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 59, 

 ed. 3, p. 55. — Brit. Exs. : Mudd, n. 14 ; Larb. Caesar, n. 10 pro 

 parte ; Leight. n. 405; Bohl. n. 16. 



A somewhat variable plant, approaching in some of its smaller slates 

 C. delicata, with which it agrees in the thalline reaction. In its larger 

 states again it is suhsimilar to C. squamosa, from which it can rightly be 

 distinguished only on the application of K. The apothecia in oiu' speci- 

 mens are rarely present. 



Ilah. On rdtten stumps of trees and among mosses in maritime and 

 upland districts. — Distr. Eather local in the Channel Islands, S.W. and 

 N. England, N. Wales S. Scotland, among the Grampians, and in E. and 

 AV. Ireland. — B. M. : Noirmont Bay. Island of Jersey. Ightham Com- 

 mon, Kent; Shanklin, I, of "Wight; near Penzance, Cornwall; Hay 

 ( 'oppice, Herefordshire ; Barmouth, Merionethshire ; Kildale and Inglehy, 

 Cleveland, Yorkshire; ALston, Cumberland ; Belhngham Woods. North- 

 umberland. New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; Appin, Argyleshire; 

 Kannoch, Perthshire ; Sidlaw Hills, Forfarshire ; Loch Linnhe, Inver- 

 ness-shire. Kelly's Glen, near Dublin ; Killariiey, co. Kerry ; Leenane, 

 Connemara, co. (ialwav. 



