CHAPTER XI. 

 LICHENS. 



By 

 J. H. FAULL, Ph.D. 



THE lichens of Eastern and parts of Northern 

 Ontario have received fairly complete treatment at 

 the hands of Professor John Macoun in his " Cata- 

 logue of Canadian Plants, Part VII," to which 

 acknowledgments are here made. Of the area cov- 

 ered by Professor Macoun the part of main interest 

 to us lies in the territory bordering on the north- 

 eastern end of Lake Ontario. The southern portions 

 of Northumberland and Hastings Counties, espe- 

 cially in the neighborhood of Belleville and Brighton, 

 have been worked over very thoroughly. West of 

 Toronto some information has been contributed by 

 several collectors, but most of all by Mr. James 

 White, who made his collections in Snelgrove, a rural 

 district of cultivated, forest, swamp, and sphagnum 

 bog land lying in the vicinity of Brampton. As 

 Toronto lies between the two in practically uninter- 

 rupted continuity with both as regards soil, climate 

 and topography, a departure has been made in this 

 one group, in the absence of a list relating solely to 

 Toronto, by going somewhat farther afield. Where 

 the locality is not credited in the accompanying com- 

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