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1939). Cumberland: Vineland. Mercer: Sourland Mountain 

 (Dix, 1939). Morris : Oak Ridge. Ocean : Lakewood and Laurel- 

 ton. Passaic : Bearfort Mountain, Haskell, Hewitt, Mountain Glen 

 Lakes near Upper Macopin, and Stonetown. Sussex : Hamburg 

 Mountain and Kittatinny Mountain. 



2c.* Cladonia sylvatica f. PROLiFERA Sandst. (4, p. 381). 

 Passaic : Stonetown. 



3. Cladonia mitis Sandst. (25, p. 86). Accredited to New 

 Jersey by des Abbayes (32. p. 127) on the basis of Mr. Nearing's 

 specimens. Bergen : Bear Swamp Pond, Franklin Lake and Mills, 

 near Mahwah (1938), Paramus (1938), Ridgewood (1938) 

 Washington, and Wyckoff. Burlington: Martha (1938). Cum- 

 berland: Vineland. Essex: North Caldwell. Middlesex: Old 

 Bridge. Monmouth : Morganville and Spring Valley. Ocean : 

 Lakewood and Sim's Place. Passaic : Bearfort Mountain, Frank- 

 lin Clove, and Hewitt. Sussex : Kittatinny Mountain. 



3b. Cladonia mitis f. prolifera Sandst. (25, p. 86) . Bergen : 

 Bear Swamp Pond, Franklin Lake, and near Mahwah (1938). 

 Monmouth: Morganville. Passaic: Bearfort Mountain. 



4. Cladonia tenuis: (Floerke) Harm. (25, p. 86). In the 

 opinion of des Abbayes the North American specimens which 

 have been referred to C. tenuis are not identical with European 

 specimens of this species. He therefore separates the North Ameri- 

 can plant as a geographical subspecies, to which he gives the name 

 ^Cladonia siihtenuis (32, p. 108), indicating the subspecific rank 

 by means of the asterisk. In the true C. tenuis, according to his 

 account, the ultimate podetial branches are curved in the same 

 direction, whereas in *C. subtennis they are either straight or 

 curved in various directions. In the southern parts of its range 

 *C subtenuis seems to be amply distinct from the true C. tenuis, 

 but in some of the more northern forms the differential features 

 are less fully realized. On account of the existence of such forms 

 des Abbayes hesitates to give *C. subtenuis full specific rank. He 

 lists his subspecies from New Jersey and cites specimens collected 

 by Blake, Colin, and Nearing, as well as those distributed in Lich. 

 Bor.-Amer., No. 63 (see 25, p. 86). According to his interpreta- 

 tion the specimens here listed under C. tennis represent the sub- 

 species *C. subtenuis des Abbayes. Bergen : Allendale, Bear 

 Swamp Pond, Darlington, Emerson (1938), Franklin Lake and 



