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Cladonia. LICHENES. 235
uncialis, Linn.— E. Bot. t. 174.
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Cladonia stellate, it. Schccr.
Lick. Helv. Spicil. p. 42., Lich. Exsicc. n. 82.— Dill. Muse t. 16.
/. 21. turgida; ft. soft turgid elongated, the branches truncate
fastigiate, the sterile ones stellato-denticulate closed, fertile ones
digitato-ramose perforated. C. stellata, b. turgida, Schcer. Lich.
Helv. Spicil. p. 43., Lich. Exsicc. n. 84. Lichen turgidus, Ehrh.
Cr.— Cladonia turgida, Hoffm—Fries.— Cenomyceparecha, Ach.
Syn. p. 272.
On Heaths and moors, abundant. (6. Ben Lawers and Ben Voirlich,
Dr. Grevlllc.— This varies considerably in size, but is tolerably constant
to its other characters and is remarkable for its stout fistulose stems
and branches with large perforations in the axils, and for the short ultimate
spreading acute branchlets. 1 quite agree with Mr. Schaerer
in referring the Cenomyce parecha of Ach. to this plant.
3. C. rangiferina, Hoffm. {Rein-deer Cladonia or Rein-deer
Moss); podetia erect elongated roughish cylindrical greenishwhite
very much branched, the axils perforated the branches
scattered often intricate divaricated the ultimate ones drooping,
apothecia subglobose brown on small erect branchlets. Schccr.
Lich. Helv. Spicil. p. 37. n. 76—79 Cenomyce rangiferina,
Ach. Syn. p. 217.—Lichen rangiferiuus, Linn.—E. Bot. t. 173.
—Dill Muse. t. 16./. 29, 30.
Moors, heaths, and mountains, frequent.—A very variable Moss,
especially in the length of the ramifications and also in colour, and an
inhabitant of almost every part of the world, even of the tropics; but
in the colder and arctic regions it is most abundant. The barren specimens
are the most branched and tufted, with the branches very intri-
cate. It is this, which, for the greater part of the year and especially in
winter, is the support of the vast herds of rein-deer wherein consists all
the wealth of the Laplanders. No vegetable, Linnaeus tells us, grows
throughout Lapland in such abundance as this, especially in woods of
scattered pines, where, for very many miles together, the surface of the
Sterile soil is cove-red with it as with snow. On the destruction of
forests by fire, when no other plant will find nutriment, this Lichen
springs up and flourishes, and, after a few years, acquires its full
Size. "Here the reindeer are pastured ; and, whatever tna\ be the depth
Of snow during the Ion- winters of that climate, these creatures have the
power of penetrating it and obtaining their necessary food. Linnaeus has
given a beautiful description of this Lichen, and of the animals, whose
support it is, iii the Flora Lappomea, p. 332, but it is too long for insertion
ill this place.
4. C. pin k/i us, Delise, (pointed Cladonia)) podetia tabular
grey forked much branched without axillary perforatioM,
brain bed twisted and entangled taper-pointed, apothecia minute
terminal solitary brownish-black, Sm.— Lichen pungent, Ack,
Cenomyce rangiferina, 9. Ack, Syn,
Prodr