130 LICHENACEI, [cLADONIA. 
distinguish this form. In the British specimens the apothecia are very 
sparingly present, though the spermogones are not uncommon. 
Hab. On the ground in maritime and upland districts—Distr. Local 
and scarce in S.W. England and the Highlands of Scotland; probably 
overlooked.—B. M.: St. Breock, Cornwall, Barcaldine, Argyleshire ; 
Rannoch, Perthshire. 
Form 2. epiphylla Nyl. Lich. Scand. (1861) p. 50.—Podetia ex- 
tremely short or wanting. Apothecia subsessile on the basal squa- 
mules, conglomerate.—Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 18; Grevillea, xi. 
p. 111.—Cladonia pyxidata B. chlorophea g. epiphylla Mudd, Brit. 
Clad. p. 9. Lichen epiphyllus Ach. Prodr. (1798) p. 185. 
This distinct form, or probably variety, is characterized by the podetia 
being abortive or nearly so, and by the apothecia being consequently 
more or less sessile on the basal thallus. A single British specimen has 
been seen; it has a few very minute, scattered podetia. 
Hab. On the ground in upland tracts.—Distr. Extremely local and 
scarce in HK. England; not recently found.—B. M.. Epping Forest, Essex. 
Var. 6. pocillum Fr. Sum. Veg. (1845) p. 110.—Squamules at 
the base somewhat large, firm, usually appressed, subimbricate, 
pale-greyish ; podetia short, turbinato-scyphiferous, corticate, gra- 
nulato-verrucose. Apothecia small, dark-brown.—Mudd, Man. 
p. 53; Brit. Clad. p. 7; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 18; Grevillea, xi. 
p. 111.—Beomyces Pocillum Ach. Meth. (1803) p. 336, t. 8. f. 6. 
In this variety the basal thallus, which is occasionally orbicular, is as if 
crustaceo-appressed to the substratum, and is sometimes of a cervine or 
lurid-cervine colour (form cervina Nyl. Syn. p. 193). The podetia are 
more or less scattered, and the apothecia, rare in our specimens, are mar- 
ginal on the scyphi. 
Hab. On sterile soil on banks and heaths in maritime and upland 
tracts.— Distr. Probably general and common, though seen only from 
comparatively few localities in England, Scotland, and the Channel 
Islands.—B,. M.: The Vale, Island of Guernsey. Near Bodmin, Corn- 
wall; Bathampton Downs, Somersetshire ; Charnwood Forest, Leicester- 
shire; Barmouth, N. Wales; Redcar, Cleveland, Yorkshire. Tongland, 
Kirkeudbrightshire; Killin and Rannoch, Perthshire; Durris, Kincar- 
dineshire ; Countesswells and Castleton of Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Glen 
Nevis, Inverness-shire. 
Var. y. chlorophea Flérke, Clad. (1828) p. 70.—Squamules at 
the base somewhat small; podetia elongato-turbinate, greenish or 
sulphur-coloured, granulato-pulverulent, scyphiferous; scyphi usually 
narrow, simple or variously proliferous.—Mudd, Clad. p. 8; Leight. 
Lich. Fl. p, 60, ed. 3, p. 57; Cromb. Grevillea, xi. p. 111.—Ceno- 
myce chlorophea Florke in Somm. Suppl. Lapp. (1826) p. 180.—Brit. 
Exs.: Mudd, Clad. nos. 7-11; Leight. n. 899; Larb. Lich, Hb. 
n. 206. 
Characterized by the granulato-pulverulent podetia, in which it ap- 
proaches C. jimbriata. When less developed the basal squamules are 
