98 CUMMINGS 



79. Stereocaulon tomentosum Fr. 



Stereocaulon tomentosum FRIES, Sched. Crit. 20. 1826. 



Juneau, 1200-1800 ft. (Saunders, 1274 ; Coville and Kearney, 609) ; 

 Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay (Trelease, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301); 

 Hidden Glacier Inlet, Yakutat (Trelease, 1294); Disenchantment 

 Bay, Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 1296, 1297); Nunatak moraine, Yaku- 

 tat Bay (Coville and Kearney, 1295); Point Gustavus, Glacier Bay 

 (Coville and Kearney, 761) ; Hidden Glacier, Russell Fiord (Coville 

 and Kearney, 981) ; Orca (Trelease, 1269) ; Kadiak (Trelease, 1311) ; 

 Hall Island (Trelease, 1267); St. Matthew Island (Coville and 

 Kearney, 2121); Port Clarence (Trelease, 1266); Postoliak River 

 (Newhall). 



Other Alaskan localities are : Port Clarence, as listed by Nylander ; 

 Kotzebue Sound, recorded by Babington ; while Dr. Cooley collected 

 it at Sheep Creek, near Juneau, and at Davidson Glacier. 



80. Stereocaulon tomentosum alpinum (Laur.) Th. Fr. 



Stereocaulon alpinum LAURER in Fries, L. E. 204. 1821. 

 Stereocaulon tomentosum alpinum TH. FRIES, Lich. Scand. 48. 1871-74. 

 SCHEUCHZ. It. Alp. 2. /. 19. 



Alaska (Evans, 196; Funston, 16 ; Turner); locality lost (Tre- 

 lease, 6112); Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay (Trelease, 1307, 12980); 

 summit of White Pass, 3000 ft. (Trelease, 1270); Disenchantment 

 Bay, Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 1310); Kadiak (Trelease, 1279); St. 

 Matthew Island (Trelease, 1268). The species was collected on the 

 islands in Bering Strait by Wright and reported from St. Lawrence 

 Island in Nylander, Lich. Fr. Behr. 



Many of the specimens are beautifully fruited. A widely distributed 

 alpine and arctic lichen, and in some of its forms only with difficulty 

 separated from S. paschale. 



81. Stereocaulon paschale (L.) Ach. 



Lichen paschalis LINNAEUS, Sp. PI. ed. 2. 2: 1621. 1764. 

 Stereocaulon paschale ACHARIUS, Meth. Lich. 315. 1803. SOWERBY, Eng. 

 Bot. /. 282. 



Hidden Glacier, Russell Fiord (Coville and Kearney) ; Muir Glacier, 

 Glacier Bay (Trelease, 1300); Orca (Trelease, 1272); St. Michael 

 (Setchell) ; Cape Nome (Setchell). Reported by Hooker and Arnott 

 as having been collected at Kotzebue Sound. Dr. Rothrock, in his 

 report on Dr. Bean's collection, writes: "Common and everywhere 

 met." 



Sterile, poorly developed specimens. 



