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Geog. Distrib : — N. Tropical and S. America, Australasia. 



Bot. Paov:— 1...15...23...26. 



England :— Near Exeter. Mr. Parfitt. 



Scotland : — Grampians. Bev. J. M. Crornbie. 



Ireland : — Ballytore, Kildare ! Mr. Carroll. Kylemore ! Mr. Loyrbalestier. 



f. portewtosa, Duf. podetia very thick and turgid, verrucoso-leprous, 

 branches short, turgescent, apices denticulato-eristate. 



Stn :— Duf. Revis. 29. (1818). Nyl. Syn. 212. 

 Exs :— Coem. Clad. Belg. 164. 165. 

 Bot. Prov:— 8...11-, 12. 



England :— Leicestershire ! Bev. A. Bloocam. West Allen Carrs, Northumber- 

 land ; Foreshield Fell, Cumberland. Bev. W. Johnson. 



f. pumila, Ach. densely ceespitoso-pulvinular. 



Syn :— Ach. L. U. 566. (1810). Syn. 278. 



Geog. Distrib : — N, and S. America, Afrioa, Polynesia, Australasia. 



England : — Leicestershire ! Bev. A. Bloxam. Nesscliffe, Shropshire ! 



2. 0. amaurocrosa, (Flk.) straw-coloured or whitish-straw-coloured, 

 efoliolose ; podetia glabrous or slightly squamoso-decorticate, straight, 

 subulate and slender, much branched, some scyphiferous, scyphi 

 cupuliform, dentato-cristate or subulato-spinose, often proliferous. 



In sub-alpine regions, very rare. 1869. 



Stn :— Elk. Clad. 119. (1828). Nyl. Syn. 216. Crornbie En. 22. 

 Exs :— FeUm. 41. Fries 347. 



Geog. Distrib : — Northernmost parts of Europe, Asia, America, and Aus- 

 tralasia. 

 Bot. Prov :— 15.. .26. 



Scotland : — County of Aberdeen. Bev. J. M. Crornbie. (1869). 

 Ireland : — Road to Recess, in bogs, 5 miles from Kylemore. Mr. Larbalestier. 



** Reaction, (K+G-). 



3. G. rangiferina, Hffm. podetia 2 — 6 inches high, cinerascent, 

 verruculoso-scabrous, subiomentose, branched, terminal branches sub- 

 corymbose, fastigiate, apices subsecund, nodding. 



Hills, mountains, heaths, common. 



Distinguished from sylvatica by the above characters and different reaction. 



Stn :— C. rangiferina, Hoffm. Fl. Germ. 114. (1795). Nyl. Syn. 211 ; Hook. 

 Brit. 235 ; Mudd Man. a. 58. Br. Clad. a. b. c. 25 ; Cerwmyce rangiferina, Hook. 

 Scot. 65. Mack. Hib. 79. 



Fig :— E. Bot. t. 173. Dill. xvi. f. 29. A. B. 



Exs :— Schasr. 76. (f. gracilis), 77. (f. grandis,) Coem. Clad. Belg. 140. 146. 



Geog. Distrib : — Europe, N. and S- America, Asia, Africa, India. 



Bot. Prov :— 1, 2.. .4.. .10.. .13, 44, 15, 16.. .18.. .31. 



England : — Yorkshire ! Mr. Mudd. Dartmoor. Mr. Parfitt. Peart's Crags ; 

 near Park House, Settle, Yorkshire. Dr. Windsor. Bedfordshire. Bev. 0. Abbot. 

 Tiptree" Heath, Essex, Mr. Varenne. near Hastings, Sussex. Bev. E. N. 

 Bloomfield. Shropshire ! 



Scotland : — Sands of Barrie ! Summit of Lion's Face ! Mr. W. Gardiner. 

 Glen Callater ! Braemar ! Dr. Lindsay. Craig Koynoch ! Mr. Croall. Hebrides ; 

 Arran ; Long Island. Prof, Balfour. Hartfell, Moffat. Dr. Nichol. Pentland 

 Hills. Dr. Oreville. 



Ireland : — On heaths and mountains, common. Mr. Carroll. 



Channel Islands : — Guernsey. Bev. T. SaVvxy. Jersey ; Sark ; Herm ; 

 Jethou, &c. Mr. Larbalestier. 



*** Reaction, (K—G+). 



4. G. uncialis, Hffm. podetia greenish-straw-coloured, glabrous, 

 cylindrical, fistulose, dichotomous, branches short, apices subulate 

 denticulate or digitate. 



