248 ` LICHENES ARCTICI. 
In its mode of growth it corresponds to the first of those above 
mentioned. 
We are to embark to night (Monday), and if we have a continuation 
of the excellent winds which have blown for some time, we may hope 
for a speedy passage. RICHARD SPRUCE. 
LICHENES ÅRCTICI; collected in 1848, by Mr. Seemann of the Expedi- 
tion of Capt. Kellet, in H.M.S. Herald, in search after Sir J. Franklin; 
by the Rev. CaurcuILL BABINGTON, M.A., St. John’s College, Cam- 
bridge. 
From Avatscha Bay. August 1848. 
Ramalina farinacea, 4ch. A fragment on fir-bark. 
Parmelia saxatilis, Ach. (P. sulcata, Tayl. !) On fir-bark. 
olivacea, 4ch. On fir-bark. 
varia 8 symmicta, Fries. On fir-bark. 
Cladonia digitata 8 viridis, Scher.! (n. 46). On rotten wood; ina ` 
bad state. ; 
——— pyxidata? Hoffm. Barren ; growing on the ground among 
Polytricha. 
From Norton Sound. September 1848. 
Evernia divergens, Fries. The specimens agree with examples from 
Lapland, collected by Wahlenberg. 
Cetraria cucullata, Ach. 
Islandica, Ach. 
Cladonia rangiferina v. sylvatica, Fries (C. sylvatica, uct.) 
All the above species grow matted amongst each other, mixed with 
dead stems of herbaceous plants and with Vaccinium Vitis-Idaa, L. 
From Kotzebue's Sound. 
Evernia divergens, Fries. > 3 
——— ochroleuca, Fries (Cornic. ochr. Auct.). This species and £. 
divergens grow together among other lichens and mosses. 
Cetraria cucullata, deh.) Both fertile; mixed together and accompanied 
——— Islandica, Ach. by other lichens and by grasses. 
—— glauca, 4ch.; substraminea, Bad, ; thallo substramineo. Barren; 
