170 LICHE.VACEI, [CLADONIA. 



multifid and creuate ; podetia somewhat thickish, pulverulent and 

 squamulose, either digitately branched or with narrow j)roliterous 

 scyphi at the apices. Apothecia moderate, or smaller and conglo- 

 merate. — Cromb. Grevillea, xv. p. 40. — Bivomi/cei dif/itatus /5. coro- 

 natns Ach. Meth. (1803) p. 333. Cladonia dijitahi var. macilenta 

 f. poh/dacfifhi (Florke) Loight. Lich. Fl. p. 70, ed. 3, p. 64, et forma 

 coronata p. Go. — Cladonia coccifera ?;. marihnta A. poli/dactylu 

 Mudd, Man. p. 62, Brit. Clad. p. 3?. Soiphophorus dir/itatus Sm, 

 Eng. Fl. V. p. 240. Ccnormice dir/itota Hook. Fl. Scot, ii, p. 63. 

 Lichen diijitains Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 874 ; With. Arr. ed, 3, iv. 

 p. 39 ; Eiig. Bot. 2439. Lichen piixidatus e. di;/iiatHS Huds. Fl. 

 Angl. p. 457. Coralloides comiu-opioi'yes incnnum^ scyphis cristatis 

 Dill. Muse. 94, t. 15. f. 17 a.— Brit. Er.^. : Leight. n. 274 ; Mudd, 

 uos. 27, '2S, Clad. nos. 77, 78, 72 pro parte ; Bohl. nos. 7, 8. 



Often confused with C. difjitata, from which it is well distinguished by 

 the podetia. It differs from the other varieties and fonns of this species 

 in the more developed basal leaflets, and in the more or less squamuloso- 

 foliaceous pod>'tia, which are either ascyphoiis and digitately branched, or 

 apically narrowly scyphiferons and proliferijus. It usually occurs well- 

 fruited. 



Hah. Among mosses on the ground, on boulders, and about the roots 

 of old trees in wooded upland districts. — Distr. (Tcneral and usually 

 plentifid where it occurs in the hilly and mountainous tracts of Great 

 Britain, and probably also of Ireland. — B. M. : Epping Forest, Essex; 

 St. Leonard's Forest, Susse.x ; New Forest, Hants ; Ivy Bridge and near 

 Totness, Devonshire : near Bodmin, Coniwall : ( haniwood Fore-^t, 

 Leicestershire: Malvern, Worcestershire; Barmouth, Dolgelly, and 

 Aberdovey. Merionethshire : Baysdale, Ingleby, Lounsdale, and Kildale, 

 Yorkshii'e : Windermere, Westmoreland ; Ashgill, Cumberland. Xew 

 Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Barcaldine, Argyleshire ; Glen Loch'iy, 

 Falls of Bruar. and Loch Rannoch, Perthshire ; C'lova, Forfarshire ; 

 Countesswells Woods, near Aberdeen ; Craig Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeen- 

 shire ; Rothiemurchus AVoods, Inverness-shire. Killarney, co. Kerry ; 

 Connemara, co. Galway ; Devis Mt., co. Antrim. 



Form 1. ventricosa Cromb. Grevillea, xv. (1886) p. 46. — Podetia 

 thick, somewhat turgid above, narrowly scyphiferous, variously 

 branched at the margins, Apothecia not seen rightly developed. — 

 Lichen ventricosn..^ Huds. Fl. Angl. (1762) p. 457; Lightf. Fl. Scot. 

 ii. p. 875; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv, p. 38. Coralloides cornitcopioides 

 iyicnnum, scyphis cristatis Dill. Muse. 94, t. 15. f. 17 b, c. — Though 

 there is no specimen of Lichen ventricosus in any of the old herbaria, 

 yet from their references to the figure of Dillenius there is little 

 doubt that this was the plant intended by the above authors. 



This seems to be only a larger and thicker form of var. coronata, some- 

 what analogous to form monMro.^a of the preceding species. As Lightfoot 

 /. c. remarks, " it re-embles in miniature a pollard tree with its lop on." 

 In the only recent British specimen seen referable to this form, as iu that 

 in Herb. Dill., there are no apothecia visibL', but only decolorate spermo- 

 gones. 



llah. On peaty soil in upland mooriands. — Di.<tr. Local and .scarce iu 



