LICHENS 91 



Monographia Cladoniarum, gives forty-five different varietal names 

 w^hich have been applied to different forms of this protean lichen, and 

 therefore he seems w^ise in excluding all these varieties. 



57. Cladonia amaurocraea (Floerk.) Schaer. 



Capitularia amaurocrcea Floerke, Beschr. Braunfr. Becherfl. 334. 18 10. 

 Cladonia amaurocraa ScuAEKES., Spicil. 34. 1823. 



St. Michael Island (Turner, 843 ; Setchell) ; St. Lavi^rence Island 

 (Trelease, 1230); Fort Cosmos (Huff, no number); Cape Nome 

 (Setchell). Also found at Port Clarence, according to Nylander. 



A subalpine and arctic lichen. 



58. Cladonia caraeola Fr. 



Cladonia carneola Fries, Lich. Eur. 233 (a). 1831. 



Sitka (Trelease, 1344). New to Alaska. 



Other North American stations are Greenland, Oregon, and Wash- 

 ington. 



59. Cladonia alpestris (L.) Rabenh. 



Uchen rangiferinus alpestris Vx^^mxs, Spec. PI. 11 53. 1753. 

 Cladonia alpestris Rabenhorst, Clad. Eur. 11. i860. — Dill. Hist. Muse. 

 /. 16. f. 2g. 



Summit of White Pass, 3000 ft. (Trelease, 1 244) ; Orca (Coville 

 and Kearney, 1203; Trelease, 1246); Virgin Bay (Saunders, 1248; 

 Coville and Kearney, 1224) ; Columbia Fiord, Prince William Sound 

 (Coville and Kearney, 1402) ; Kadiak (Trelease, 1239) ' ^^ Island 

 (Coville and Kearney, 2061) ; St. Matthew Island (Trelease, 1256) ; 

 St. Michael Island (Turner, 844; Setchell); St. Lawrence Island 

 (Trelease, 1249, 1251, 1258; Coville and Kearney, 2009; Cole, no 

 number); Port Clarence (Trelease, 1253); Cape Nome (Setchell); 

 Seward Peninsula (Collier). Under the synonym Cladonia rangi- 

 ferina alpestris^ Nylander records its occurrence on St. Lawrence 

 Island, while Macoun states that it is common on St. George Island. 



This is a common alpine and arctic form, and shows great variation 

 in the delicacy and fineness of the thallus. This is one of the finest 

 collections of this species that I have ever seen. 



60. Cladonia sylvatica sylvestris Oed. 



Cladonia sylvatica sylvestris Oeder in Fl. Dan. 3: 4. t. jjp. 1770. 



Alaska (Funston, no number ; Townsend, 57^) ; New Metlakatla 

 (Trelease, 1241) ; Juneau (Trelease, 1259) ; Sitka (Trelease, 1242; 

 Coville and Kearney, 881 in part) ; summit of White Pass, 3000 ft. 

 (Brewer and Coe, 625) ; Port Wells (Trelease, 1245) ; Orca (Trelease, 



