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Harbor Co.: Westport, 1908, Foster 614 (F) ; Copalis, 1911, Foster 

 1458 (W). Clallam Co.: Dungeness, 1913, Foster 2534 (W). Thurston 

 Co.: Tenino, Frye (W). Kittitas Co.: Ellensburg region, 1935, Sister 

 Marion Loretta (WTU). Spokane Co.: Liberty Lake 1909, T. A. Bon- 

 ser (WTU). 



The most common species of Ramalina in the state. Plate X, D. 



5. Ramalina Menziesii Tuck. Syn. Lich. N. Eng. 12. 1848. 



Ramalina leptocarpha Tuck. Am. Jour. Arts and Sci. Ser. 2, 25 :423, 

 1858. 



Thallus olive-buff (R), straw yellow (R), or honey colored (R), 

 tufted, erect or pendulous, flattened, membranaceous, thin, rigid, rather 

 ribbon like, flexuous, channeled, becoming lacunose, sparingly branched, 

 puberulent, rarely sorediate, tips of branches acuminate. Apothecia circu- 

 lar, marginal or subterminal, 1-6 mm. in diameter, subpedicellate ; disk 

 concolorous with the thallus, concave to convex; thalline margin entire, 

 sometimes disappearing; spores hyaline, oblong-ellipsoid, straight or often 

 curved, nonseptate, 14.0-18.0 x 5.5-8.0 jx. 



On trees or old wood : San Juan Co. : Friday Harbor, 1906, Fink and 

 L. Clark (M) ; Wasp Island, 1906, Fink 197 (M). 



The broadly expanded lacunose thallus helps to distinguish this lichen. 

 It is very rare in Washington, but common farther south, especially in 

 California, 



6. Ramalina pollinaria (Liljebl.) Ach. Lichenogr. Univers. 608. 1810. 

 Lichen calicaris C. pollinaris Liljebl. Utkast Svensk. Fl. 426. 1792. 



Thallus cream color (R), honey yellow (R), or greenish gray, rather 

 membranaceous, tufted, flaccid, lobes flattened, narrow, wrinkled, channeled, 

 branching irregularly, branches rather short, tips broken and torn, powdery 

 sorediate, especially at the bursting tips. Apothecia rare, subterminal, 

 0.8-3.0 mm. in diameter, sessile; disk concolorous with the thallus, con- 

 cave ; thalline margin rarely disappearing ; spores hyaline, oblong-ellipsoid, 

 straight or slightly curved, 1 -septate, 9.0-13.0 x 4.0-6.0 /x. 



On trees, more rarely on rocks : San Juan Co. : Brown Island, 1940, 

 3204; San Juan Island, Kanaka Bay, 1907, Foster 559y2 (W), determined 

 as Ramalina pollinaria (Ach.) Nyl. form humilis Ach. Clallam Co.: 

 Dungeness, 1913, Foster 2535 (F). 



7. Ramalina reticulata (Noedh.) Krmphbr. Geschichte der Lich. 2:617. 



1869. 

 Lichen reticulatus Noedh. Jour, fiir Bot. 1 :238. 1800. 



Thallus buffy olive (R), chamois (R), or grayish green, alike on both 

 sides, compressed, greatly elongated, pendulous, never tufted, rather stiff 

 and rigid, much branched, lobes flattened, rarely subterete, narrow or 

 dilated, sometimes longitudinally channeled, finally perforated and forming 

 tangled mats of a coarse or delicate net-work. Apothecia marginal, small, 



