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Lydd Beach, Kent. Mr. Holmes, Tuddenham Heath, Suffolk. Rev. E. N 

 Bloomfield. Leith Hill, Surrey. Mr. W. Joshua. Tiptree Heath, Essex. Mr 

 Varenne. Longmynd ! Wrekin ! Stiperstones ! Shropshire. 



Scotland :— Glen Callater ! Lion's Face ! and Sidlaw Hills ! and Morne ! 

 Mr. Croall. Ben Lawers ! Mr. D. Twrner. Pentland Hills. Dr. Greville. 



Ireland :— Derry. Dr. Moore. Bantry I Miss Sutchms. 



Wales :— Barmouth ! 



Channel Islands :— Guernsey, Bev. T. Salwey. Jersey, Sark, &c. Mr.. 

 Larbalestier. 



Var. abortiva, Schser. podetia subuliform, recurved or hooked at 

 the apex, sterile. 



Exa :— Schser. L. H. 69 ! Mudd Br. Clad. 36 ! 

 England .—Yorkshire ! Mr. Mudd. 



Var. ocrochlora, Flk. Clad. 75. Nyl. Syn. 198. a smaller form 

 of about one inch high of cornuta, represented by Schser. 640 ' 

 Mudd Br. Clad. 23 ! 24 ! 25 ! 26 ! 



Rare, Cleveland, Yorkshire ! Mr. Mudd. 



11. G. verticillata, Flk. thallus foliaceo-squamulose, leaflets 

 laciniseform, crenato-incised ; podetia ashey-grey, corticate, glabrous 

 or subverrucose, scyphiferous, scyphi denticulate at the margins, 

 2 — 4 times repeatedly verticillato-proliferous and scyphiferovs from 

 centre of scyphi ; apothecia fuscous. 



Rocks and mountainous districts, rare. 



Syn :— Elk. Clad. 26. (1828). Nyl. Syn. 1. 197 ; Cladonia gracilis v. verticil- 

 Iota, Mudd Man. 54 ; Cladonia cervicornis v. verticillata, Mudd Br. Clad. 5. 



Eig :— Dill. t. xiv. f. 6. G. H. - Vaill. Paris. 21. f. 5. 



Exs :— M. & N. 644 ! Mudd Brit. Clad. 3 ! 



Geog. Distbie : — Europe, N. America, Australasia, 



Bot. Prov:— 2.. .7.. .10. ..26. ..31. 



England : — Yorkshire ! Mr. Mudd. Broadwater Forest, Tunbridge Wells ! 

 Mr. Jenner. 



Ireland : — Kylemore Pass ! co. Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Wales : — Barmouth ! 



Channel Islands:— Jersey. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Var. sobolifera, Del. thallus foliaceous, lacinise narrow, inciso- 

 crenate, glaucous-green above, whitish beneath, podetia | — f in. 

 high, cylindrical, glabrous, subverrucose, sometimes leafy, dilated 

 upwards into a scyphus, whose margins are denticulato-dilated, sub- 

 cymoso-proliferous with leaflets interspersed ; apothecia small, simple, 

 convex or conglomerate, fuscous. 



Rocky mountains, probably not unfrequent, but confounded 

 with cervicornis, from which the different reaction distinguishes it. 



Syn :— Del. in Dub. Bot. Gall. 631. (1830) ; Cladonia verticillata b. phyllophora, 

 Flk. Clad. 28 ! Cladonia cervicornis v. prodiga, Ach. L. U. 532. 



Fig : — E. Bot. t. 1392. looks much more like this than alcicornis. 



Exs :— Leight. 14. Mudd Brit. Clad. 2. 



Geog. Distrib : — Europe, N. & Tropical America, Africa, India. 



Bot. Prov:— 4, 5...7...10. 



England : — Yorkshire ! Mr. Mudd. Lound ! Mr. D. Turner. Caer Caradoc ! 

 Wrekin ! Laurence Hill ! Shropshire. 



Ireland : — Ballyedmond, co, Cork. Mr. Wright. 



Wales :— Barmouth ! Holyhead Mountain ! 



12. G. degenerans, Flk. thallus squamulose ; podetia whitish or 

 brown, cartilaginous, glabrous, nigrescent and albo-guttate at the 

 base, scyphophorous, scyphi proliferous, cristato-ramose. 



