328 RIDDLE: NOTEWORTHY LICHENS FROM JAMAICA 
Lecidea incondita Krempelh. Flora 59: 316. 1876. This was 
based on the same collection from Brazil (Glaziou 552c) as Fée’s 
species. 
Lecidea versicolor var. vigilans Nyl. Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. 7: 461. 
1863 (in greater part). Not Lecanora vigilans Taylor, London Jour. 
Bot. 6: 159. 1847! The type of Taylor’s species is in the her- 
barium of the Boston Society of Natural History. There are 
two specimens, one from Mauritius and the other from Peru. But 
they represent two different species, and as the Mauritius speci- 
men, which is cited first in Taylor’s original description and 
should, therefore, be considered the actual type, is a species of 
Bombyliospora, the name vigilans Taylor can not be used in con- 
nection with Megalospora versicolor, even though the specimen 
from Peru belongs to that species. As the name vigilans has been 
used as a varietal name for both Megalospora versicolor and M. 
sulphurata, and is actually a Bombyliospora, it will make for clear- 
ness to drop it altogether. 
According to Fée’s original description of bhiee versicolor, 
the var. dichroma corresponds to the typical form of the species, 
with the apothecia characteristically variable in color; but there 
is a tendency toward darkening, and the specimens having all 
the apothecia entirely black, but still small and regular, as is 
frequently the case, are to be considered merely as mature plants 
of this variety. 
JAMAICA: without definite locality, Clara E. Cummings I5I, 
153; also in Merrill’s Lich. Exsic. No. 230. 
Specimens examined from Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, Costa 
Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil (spec. authent. !); recorded 
also from Australasia and from Africa. 
2b. MEGALOSPORA VERSICOLOR var. livido-cincta (Muell. Arg.) 
Riddle, comb. nov. 
Patellaria livido-cincta Muell. Arg. Flora 64: 227. 1881. 
Patellaria versicolor var. livido-cincta Muell. Arg. Bull. Soc. 
Roy. Bot. Belgique 32: 141. 1894. 
Specimens examined from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil 
(type!). 
