170 LICHENACEI. [CLADONTA, 
multifid and crenate; podetia somewhat thickish, pulverulent and 
squamulose, either digitately branched or with narrow proliferous 
scyphi at the apices. Apothecia moderate, or smaller aud conglo- 
merate.—Cromb. Grevillea, xv. p. 46.—Baomyces digttatus B. coro- 
natus Ach. Meth. (1808) p. 333. Cladonia diyitata var. macilentu 
f. polydactyla (Florke) Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 70, ed. 3, p. 64, et forma 
coronata p. 65.—Cladonia coccifera n. macilenta A. polydactyla 
Mudd, Man. p. 62, Brit. Clad. p. 32. Scyphophorus digitatus Sm. 
Eng. Fl. v. p. 240. Cenomyce digitata Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 63. 
Lichen digitatus Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 874; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. 
p. 89; Eng. Bot. 2439. Lichen pywidatus e. digitatus Huds. Fi. 
Angl. p. 457. Coralloides cornucopioides incanum, scyphis cristatis 
Dill. Muse. 94, t. 15. f. 17 a.— Brit. Evs.: Leight. n. 274; Mudd, 
nos. 27, 28, Clad. nos. 77, 78, 72 pro parte; Bohl. nos. 7, 8. 
Often confused with C. digitata, from which it is well distinguished by 
the podetia. It differs from the other varieties and forms of this species 
in the more developed basal leaflets, and in the more or less squamuloso- 
foliaceous podetia, which are either ascyphous and digitately branched, or 
apically narrowly scyphiferous and proliferous. It usually occurs well- 
’ fruited. 
Hab. Among mosses on the ground, on boulders, and about the roots 
of old trees in wooded upland districts.—Distr. General and usually 
plentiful where it occurs in the hilly and mountainous tracts of Great 
Britain, and probably also of Ireland.—B. M.: Epping Forest, Essex ; 
St. Leonard’s Forest, Sussex ; New Forest, Hants; Ivy Bridge and near 
Totness, Devonshire; near Bodmin, Cornwall; Charnwood Forest, 
Leicestershire; Malvern, Worcestershire; Barmouth, Jolgelly, and 
Aberdovey, Merionethshire; Baysdale, Ingleby, Lounsdale, and Kildale, 
Yorkshire; Windermere, Westmoreland; Ashgill, Cumberland. New 
Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Barcaldine, Argyleshire ; Glen Lochay, 
Falls of Bruar, and Loch Rannoch, Perthshire; Clova, Forfarshire ; 
Countesswells Woods, near Aberdeen ; Craig Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeen- 
shire; Rothiemurchus Woods, Inverness-shire. Killarney, co. Kerry ; 
Connemara, co. Galway; Devis Mt., co. Antrim. 
Form 1. ventricosa Cromb. Grevillea, xv. (1886) p. 46.—Podetia 
thick, somewhat turgid above, narrowly scyphiferous, variously 
branched at the margins. Apothecia not seen rightly developed. 
Lichen ventricosus Huds. Fl. Angl. (1762) p. 457; Lightf. Fl. Scot. 
ii. p. 875; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 38. Coralloides cornucopioides 
-incanum, scyphis cristatis Dill. Muse. 94, t. 15. f. 17 8, c.—Though 
there is no specimen of Lichen ventricosus in any of the old herbaria, 
yet from their references to the figure of Dillenius there is little 
doubt that this was the plant intended by the above authors.” 
This seems to be only a larger and thicker form of var. covonata, some- 
what analogous to form monstrosa of the preceding species. As Lightfoot 
1. c. remarks, “it resembles in miniature a pollard tree with its lop on.” 
Tn the only recent British specimen seen referable to this form, as in that 
in Herb, Dill., there are no apothecia visible, but only decolorate spermo- 
gones. 
Hab, On peaty soil in upland moorlands.—Distr. Local and scarce in 
