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thecia; f. homodactyla (Wallr.) Robbins, similar to the last, 

 but the cups broken up by deep sinuses between the fruited 

 stipes; f. lepidophora (Floerke) Sandst., like carpophora, but 

 squamulose. These forms, and probably others recorded by 

 Evans and by Robbins and Blake, occur in our range in a 

 variety of habitats, on earth, over mosses, on decaying wood, on 

 the bases and even high on the trunks of living trees. 



39. C. nemoxyna (Ach.) Nyl. (PI. 4, f. 7.) Rare, seen or 

 reported in few instances in this area (Ramapo Torne, J. W. 

 Thomson, Jr.; Olive Bridge, Ulster Co.) on thin soil over ledges 

 or in crevices of rocks. Our specimens were f. fibula, with ir- 

 regular, one-sided cups, and short fruited proliferations. 



40. C. coniocraea (Floerke) Spreng/ (PI. 4, f. 5.) Fairly 

 common on earth, on decaying wood, on bases and trunks of 

 trees, sometimes several feet, above ground, throughout our 

 area, more frequent in the deciduous hardwood forests of the 

 Highlands, than nearer coast. Our commonest form is f. cera- 

 todes (Floerke) Vainio, with esquamulose, subulate tipped 

 podetia; with it may be found f. truncata (Floerke) Vainio, 

 with blunt tipped podetia occasionally bearing small, narrow 

 cups; less common is f. phyllostrata (Floerke) Vainio, with 

 squamulose podetia. F. expansa with large, often erect primary 

 squamules, upper surface concave, KOH + , pale yellow, occurs 

 on tree bases in "Sunken Forest" on Fire Island, L. I. 



41. C. ochrochlora, occasionally found with C. coniocraea 

 and distinguishable by the frequent brown apothecia. 



42. C. pityrea (Floerke) Fr. Rather rare, more likely to 

 be found in the northern part of our area, in Shawangunks and 

 Catskills; podetia with cups and with subulate apices on same 

 plants. 



43. C. strepsilis (Ach.) Vainio. (PI. 3, f. 4.) Found with C. 

 brevis, subcariosa and papillaria, in eastern Long Island, and in 

 the Pine Barrens, dwarfed f. subsessilis, the taller f. glabrata 

 Vainio and the branching f. coralloidea (Ach.) Vainio. 



