158 LICHENACEI. [craponra. 
Aberdovey and Dolgelly, Merionethshire ; Cleveland, Yorkshire. Tong- 
land, Kirkeudbrightsbire ; Appin, Argyleshire ; Loch Linnhe, Inverness- 
shire. Leenane, near Kylemore, co. Galway. 
Subsp. C. adspersa Nyl. ex Cromb. Grevillea, xi. (1883) p. 114.— 
Podetia moderate, somewhat slender, squamuloso-furfuraceous, 
sparingly branched ; branches subsimple, usually recurved, subulate 
or furcately divided at the apices (K—,CaCl—). Apothecia small, 
dark-brown.—Cladonia adspersa Cromb. Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 360. 
Cladonia fureata var. adspersa Flérke, Deutsch. Lich. (1821) 
n. 198; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 61. 
Though regarded by authors as belunging to C. furcata, var. recurva of 
which it closely approaches, Nylander now refers this to (\ sguamosa as 
a subspecies well characterized by the podetia. With us, as elsewhere, 
the apothecia are very rare, but the spermogones are frequent. 
Hab. Among mosses in woods and on shady rocks in upland districts. 
—Distr. Local in England and Ireland; more general in the Highlands 
of Scotland.—B, M.: Shanklin Downs, Isle of Wight; Epping Forest, 
Essex ; near Oxford ; Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. New Galloway, 
Kirkeudbrightshire; Barcaldine, Argyleshire; Rannoch, Perthshire ; 
Inglismaldie Wocds, Kincardineshire ; Countesswells, near Aberdeen, and 
Glen Callater, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Loch Linnhe, Inverness-shire. 
Connemara, co. Galway. 
27. C. subsquamosa Ny]. ev Cromb. Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xvii. 
(1880) p. 560.—Thallus foliaceo-squamulose at the base; squamules 
small, inciso-crenate, pale or greyish-green above, white beneath ; 
podetia somewhat short or more elongate, branched, minutely squa- 
mulose in the lower portion, granulate above, furcate, or radiato- 
cristate and subcorymbose at the apices (K+ yellow and then crim- 
son, CaCl—). Apothecia small, reddish-brown.—Cladonia delicata 
var. subsquamosa Ny]. ex Leight. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, xviii. 
(1866) p. 407; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 20; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 59, 
ed. 3, p. 55.—Brit. Exvs.: Mudd, n. 14; Larb. Cesar. n. 10 pro 
parte ; Leight. n. 405; Bohl. n. 16, 
A somewhat variable plant, approaching in some of its smaller states 
C. delicata, with which it agrees in the thalline reaction. In its larger 
states again it is subsimilar to C. sguamosa, from which it can rightly be 
distinguished only on the application of K. The apothecia in our speci- 
mens are rarely present. 
Hab. On rotten stumps of trees and among mosses in maritime and 
upland districts.—Distr. Rather local in the Channel Islands, S.W. and 
N. England, N. Wales, S. Scotland, among the Grampians, and in E. and 
W. Ireland.—B. M.: Noirmont Bay, Island of Jersey. Ightham Com- 
mon, Kent; Shanklin, I. of Wight; near Penzance, Cornwall; Hay 
Coppice, Herefordshire ; Barmouth, Merionethshire ; Kildale and Ingleby, 
Cleveland, Yorkshire; Alston, Cumberland ; Bellingham Woods, North- 
umberland. New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; Appin, Argyleshire ; 
Rannoch, Perthshire; Sidlaw Hills, Forfarshire ; Loch Linnhe, Inver- 
ness-shire. Kelly’s Glen, near Dublin; Killarney, co. Kerry ; Leenane, 
Connemara, co. Galway. 
