CLADONIA. ] CLADONTEL, 151 
Nat. Arr. i. p. 414; while it is also Cladonia furcata pro parte of 
more recent authors.—Brit. Hws.: Mudd, Clad. nos. 46, 47; Leight. 
un. 401; Bohl, n. 28. 
The more or less (sometimes sparingly) fissured podetia and the form 
of their apices characterize this variety. The podetia, which are fre- 
quently subspadiceous, vary in length from 1 to 5 in., and in our British 
specimens are usually somewhat slender and rarely sparingly foliiferous. 
ith K the reaction, at least in paler specimens, is often slightly yellow 
quickly turning to brownish. It is usually well fertile, the apothecia 
being numerous on the subcorymbose apices. 
Hab. On the ground and on turf-walls in wooded upland districts.— 
Distr. Somewhat local and scarce in England, N. Wales, S. Scotland, 
and §. Ireland; more frequent, however, among the Scottish Grampians. 
—B. M.: Epping Forest, Essex ; Winchfield, Hants; Dartmoor, Devon- 
shire ; Withiel and near Penzance, Cornwall; Charnwood Forest, Leices- 
tershire; Malvern, Worcestershire ; Aberdovey, Merionethshire; Ayton 
Moor, Cleveland, Yorkshire; the Cheviots, Northumberland. New Gal- 
loway, Kirkeudbrightshire; Appin, Argyleshire ; Glen Lochay and Ran- 
noch, Perthshire. Countesswells, near Aberdeen; Glen Dee, Braemar, 
Aberdeenshire ; Loch Linnhe and Rothiemurchus Woods, Inverness-shire, 
Near Cork; Killarney, co. Kerry. 
Var. y. spinosa Hook. in Sm. Eng. FI. v. (1833) p. 236.—Podetia 
moderate, rigid, glabrous, decumbent; branches lax, curved and 
flexuose, here and there spinulose. Apothecia small, dark-brown.— 
Tayl. in Mack. Fl. Hib. ii. p. 80; Leight. Aun. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
ser. 3, xxili. p. 413, Lich. FI. p. 65, ed. 3, p. 60; Cromb. Grevillea, 
xi. p. 118.—Lichen spinosus Huds. Fl. Angl. (1762) p. 459; Lightt. 
Fl. Scot. ii. p. 882; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 45. Cladonia furcata 
3. subulata d. spadicea Mudd, Brit. Clad. p. 23. Coralloides spar- 
sum, caulibus tortuosis et spinosis Dill. Muse. 101, t. 16. f. 25.— 
Brit. Exs.: Mudd, Clad. n. 52. 
This differs in the rather lax, irregularly branched and curved podetia, 
bearing scattered, short, erect or recurved spinules. The podetia, which, 
though rigid, are brittle, are often subspadiceous, but when paler in 
colour they usually give with K a distinct yellow reaction. It is rather 
rare in fruit, the apothecia being either simple or sparingly aggregate. 
Hab. On the ground in moorlands and ‘upon turf-walls in upland 
districts. —Distr. Probably general and common throughout Great Britain 
and Ireland—B. M.: Epping Forest, Essex; Dartmoor, Devonshire ; 
Newmarket Heath, Cambridgeshire; Brandon Hill, Leicestershire ; Aber- 
dovey, Merionethshire; Island of Anglesea; Ingleby Park, Cleveland, 
Yorkshire; the Cheviots, Northumberland; Harris Moor, Cumberland. 
Craig Calliach and Rannoch, Perthshire; Baldovan, Forfarshire; Durris, 
Kineardineshire ; Countesswells, near Aberdeen ; near Inverey, Braemar, 
Aberdeenshire; Glen Nevis, Inverness-shire. Seymourhill Bog, near 
Belfast, co. Antrim. 
Subsp. C. racemosa Nyl. ea Norrl. Not. Sillsk. pro F. et Fl. Fenn. 
Farh, n.s. x. (1873) p. 820.—Podetia elongate, stoutish, irregularly 
branched, more or less squamulose, the branches short, erect, furcate 
at the apices (K—, CaCl—). Apothecia small, aggregate, brown. 
