CTLADONIA.] CLADONIET. 147 
_ Form 3. pleolepidea Nyl. Lich. Scand. (1861) p. 54,—Podetia 
simple or sparingly branched above, usually somewhat curved, 
ascyphous, densely covered with rigid squamules. Apothecia nume- 
rous, dark-brown.—Cromb. Grevillea, xii. p. 91. 
The podetia, which Nylander (7. ¢.) describes as being 2-3 in. long, are 
with us much smaller, from 4 to lin. Occasionally, where less squamu- 
lose, they are white-punctate. In the twe «pecimens gathered the apo- 
thecia are more or less aggregate. 
Hab. Among short mosses on the ground in alpine places.—Distr. 
Very local and scarce among the N. Grampians, Scotland.—B. M.: Near 
the summit of Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 
Var. (3. anomea Florke, Clad. (1828) p. 43.—Podetia short, 
slender, rugose and more or less squamulose ; scyphi usually ra- 
diately divided. Apothecia either sessile or pedicellate, dark brown. 
—Mudd, Brit. Clad. p. 18; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 20 ; Leight. Lich. 
Fl. p. 64, ed. 3, p. 60.—Cladonia gracilis 3. degenerans c. anomea 
Mudd, Man. p. 55. Scyphephorus anomeus Sm. Eng. Fl. v. p. 238. 
Cenomyce anomea Hook. FI. Scot. ii. p. 63. Lichen anomeus Eng. 
Bot. t. 1867. Beomyces anomeus Ach. Meth. (1803) p. 349.— 
Brit. Exs.: Mudd, Clad. n. 32 (atypical). 
This variety is distinguished by the podetia, which are from 3 to | in. 
high, being either densely or partially covered with squamules, and by 
the form of their scyphi. As observed, however, by Nylander (Syn. 
p- 200), the podetia are scarcely scyphiferous, but rather radiato-partite 
(¢fr. Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 552). The apothecia are either simple or con- 
glomerate, becoming in age somewhat large. 
Hab. On the ground on heaths and on rotten wood in upland situa- 
tions.— Distr. Apparently locai and scarce in 8.W. and N. England, in S. 
Scotland, and among the Grampians; no doubt overlooked elsewhere.— 
B. M.: Lakenham, Norfolk; near Hurstpierpoint, Sussex; Dartmoor, 
S. Devon; Malvern, Worcestershire ; Burton Head, Cleveland, Yorkshire. 
Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh; Craig Calliach, Perthshire; Glen Cal- 
later and Glen Quoich, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 
Subsp. 1. C. trachyna Nyl. ew Norrl. Not. Sallsk. pro F. et Fl. 
Fenn. Forh. n. s. x. (1873) p. 319.—Podetia elongate, or mode- 
rate, cylindrical, squamulose, scyphiferous, sordid-whitish ; scyphi 
denticulato-proliferous and radiato-cristate at the margins. Apo- 
thecia minute, brown.—Cromb. Grevillea, xi. p. 113.—Cladonia 
degenerans f. trachyna Mudd, Brit. Clad. p.18. Beomyces érachynus 
Ach, Meth. (1803) p. 348. 
From the preceding varieties and forms this differs in the form of the 
scyphi, which give it somewhat the appearance of C. erispata. This and 
its general habit seem to entitle it to rank as a subspecies. The podetia 
are normally from 3 to 5 in. long ; but they sometimes occur less develuped. 
The apothecia are at length dark brown, but our more elongate states are 
only spermogoniiferous. 
Hab, On heathy ground amongst mosses in upland and subalpine 
recions.— Distr. Local and scarce among the Scottish Grampians.— 
B. M.: Rannoch, Perthshire; Ben-naboord, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 
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