188 NEW LICHENS. 
referred to Alectoria and not to Ramalina, whose habit, 
however, it strongly possesses. 
2. A. virens, Tayl. ; thallo pendulo, elongato, filiformi, tereti- - 
compresso, subdichotomo, implexo, pallide virenti, hinc 
canaliculato, ad angulos compresso, ramulis ultimis seta- 
ceis, flexuoso-curvatis, apice nigricantibus; gemmis in 
thalli canaliculo pulveraceis, concoloribus ; apotheciis 
minutis, convexis, fuscis, immarginatis, 
Has. Sheopore, East Indies ; Wallich.—Tufts loose, dull - 
green, more than one foot long, rough with short, seta- — 
ceous branches tipped with black. It is very bitter, and 
imparts a green tinge to the saliva when masticated. 
3. A. spinosa, Tayl. ; thallo erecto, tereti, lævissimo, subtus 
canaliculato, basi cinereo, apice fuscescenti, ramulis fuscis, 
setaceis, acuminatis, striatis, rectiusculis ; gemmis raris, 
 granulatis; apotheciis ad thalli angulos sessilibus, con- 
cavis, subtus levibus, disco rufescenti-fulvo, albido-prui- 
noso, margine tenui, crenulato. 
Has. Nepal; JFallich.— Tufts loose, 3-4 inches high; thallus : 
- branched at the base, often dichotomous above. Apothe- 
. cia as large as peas, some with a reddish-brown lamina, all 
of them covered with a white pruina. The loruli. S 
shorter and straighter than in any of the congeners. 
RAMALINA, Ach. 
: S CERE ; ? d S gra : t 
eragua ; Sinclair, California ; E "Mentes 
Beechey, Hook, herb. —Loosely tufted, pale | awney; 
x inches long; stems. Split at the r T 
ving a whitish powder but the tru 
