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on Benches covered by leaves than on bare and rough ones; 
and if any fragments should catch on leafy branches ‘be saul 
receive less light during the winter rains than thbac es ing 
from unshaded branches, and hence, as the elaboration of ey 
less, so also the growth 
oO food by the gonidia would be 
€ association of hyphe and gonidia would be proportionally 
hward, there is not 
and shrubs of all 
dry and leafy 
e and growth | 
ompetition 
“ hele npseeaane the coast and sout 
a, .. a ion, for this fiche grows on trees 
season fre at milder region, where during the 
‘ven then a. fogs make some food manufactur 
and aaa ‘About here it grows with little c 
Cladonia i a startling BiZe, but there it 1s crowded by Usnea, 
much th ane Sepia er so far as my own observations go, 
here, which dl i ad naae I have a fragment, collected very near 
is twenty-six inches long, measured dry. There is 
h longer the whole plant 
pecies of Ramalina is 
h of the fragments is 
it may come near 
n 
a... ae of guessing how much 
the best een. So far as I know, this s 
Never very ichen however, and as the breadt 
bein y small in proportion to their length 
§ the broadest also. 
