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doniae, familiar to children and natural history students. Every 

 where in our range, though richest in numbers in the sunny 

 pine and oak woods of eastern Long Island and in the Pine 

 Barrens. Large colonies are often found on dead wood in the 

 Highlands. It climbs to 3700 feet in the Catskills. It is repre- 

 sented with us by the following forms, f. Beauvoisii (Del.) 

 Vainio, with smooth podetia and scarlet apothecia; f. ochro- 

 carpia Tuck, similar but with buff apothecia; f. ramosa, Tuck, 

 like Beauvoisii; but densely branched from the base; f. vestita, 

 Tuck., with more or less densely squamulose podetia, sometimes 

 quite stout, and with abundant and often large and conspicu- 

 ous scarlet apothecia; f. squamulosa, Robbins, like vestita, 

 but with flesh colored apothecia; f. pleurocarpa, Robbins, 

 with scarlet apothecia on short, lateral branches; or sessile on 

 the sides of the podetia; f. degenerata Robbins, with scarlet 

 apothecia on short, often decumbent apothecia; f. abbreviata, 

 Merrill, with almost or quite sessile scarlet apothecia on the 

 primary squamules; Dr. Evans has reported f. squamosissima, 

 with the podetia densely covered with small compact squam- 

 ules, in Connecticut and it may be looked for elsewhere in our 

 area. 



16. C. incrassata Floerke. (C. paludicola of older au- 

 thors.) (PI. 1, f. 12.) A very handsome species, when well 

 fruited, with densely crowded podetia. Limited to its favorite 

 habitats, usually on rotten wood in swamps, though sometimes 

 in drier places. Found along cedar swamp streams in the Pine 

 Barrens, in Wawayanda Cedar Swamp, west of Greenwood 

 Lake, and in low places on eastern Long Island. A form, f. 

 squamulosa, Robbins, with podetia densely squamulose, oc- 

 curs with the species. 



17. C. uncialis (L.) Web. (PI. 2, f. 1.) Well distributed 

 in our area, from a few feet above sea level in Long Island and 

 the Pine Barrens to over 2,000 feet on the Shawangunk Moun- 

 tain. Students are referred to Dr. Evans' "Notes on the Cla- 

 doniae of Connecticut," Rhodora, July-Aug., 1932, for detailed 

 and revised treatment of this and the two following species and 

 their forms. C. uncialis varies much in size and shades of brown- 

 ish and yellowish green, from densely matted dwarf plants of 

 exposed places in the highlands, to taller, more open, slenderer 

 forms in Long Island and the Pine Barrens, but the pointed, 



