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erect, the branches mostly in pairs, 2 to 3 inches long, becoming 
divergent, below sheathed in the upper leaf, sparingly flower-bearing 
above the middle, branches and pedicle slightly scabrous; spikelets, 
including the awns, 9-10 inches long ; glumes 4 to 5 lines long, 
nearly equal, narrow, i-nerved, acuminate, slightly scabrous on the 
keeb rather shorter than the flowering-glume, which is 5 to 6 lines 
long, including the short pubescent stipe, narrow, smooth, the awns 
nearly equal, 5 to 6 lines long, erect. 
Collected in Southern Arizona in 1869 by Dr, E. Palmer.* 
A New Ramalina. 
By Edward Tuckerman. 
Ramalina crinita, sp. nov. — Thallus crespilose, rigid, compressed, 
sub-dichotomous, linear-laciniate, at length much dilated, greenish- 
glaucous, the divisions smooth, interruptedly white-striate, and 
becoming lacunose, attenuate at the summits, and clothed at the 
margins more or less thickly with strong, solitary or clustered, finally 
branched, black fibrils; apothecia middling-sizcd to large y-^'^^^^""' 
in width), subterminal and lateral, subpodicellate, varying as to 
smoothness as the thallus, the margins blackened ; spores oblong- 
ellipsoid, i|:f mic. 
On low shrubs of Ettphorhia miscra^ in company with Rocceila 
leucophcEa^ Physda erinacea^ etc., on the coast, San Diego, California, 
C. R, Orcutt, in herb. Sprague ; found also by the same collector, at 
Todos los Santos, Lower California; spermogones not observed. In 
the only other known species comparable with this, inasmuch as the 
slender divisions pass above into, and are beset with black fibrils 
{R, melanothrix, Laur., known only from the Cape of Good Hope, 
Drege;) the spermogones are described as black. The tufts of our 
plant vary from one and a half to three inches in height in the speci- 
mens seen as yet, and the width of the divisions from 2^^- to more 
than an inch. The general aspect of the lichen suggests the stock of 
-R. calk ar is. 
Notes on the Adirondacks. — The recent action of the^ Legisla- 
ture having brought the great North Wilderness into prominent no- 
tice, some general notes made on a recent hurried journey through a 
portion of that region may not be devoid of interest Commencing at 
North Creek, some sixty miles by rail from Saratoga, a stage journey of 
twenty miles, followed by a buck-board progression— one could hardly 
call it a journey — of ten miles further through a wooded and broken 
country, brings us to Blue Mountain Lake. This sheet of water, with 
Its irregular and deeply indented shores and numerous islands, is per- 
haps the most picturesque of the almost numberless lakes which con- 
stitute so prominent a feature of the whole region. The vegetation of 
that M: 
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