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One of the best finds among the Cladoniae was another sta- 

 tion for C. floridana, in the smooth f. esquamosa. The extension 

 of the known range of this species in the past ten years has been 

 interesting, and suggestive that many reported plant ranges 

 may be incorrect, owing to lack of extensive search by bota- 

 nists acquainted with them. Plants from North Carolina and 

 Alabama, under the name of C. santensis, b. beaumontii, de- 

 scribed by Tuckerman, in his Synopsis of North American 

 lichens, 1882, probably included what is now defined as C. flori- 

 dana, according to C. A. Robbins, in Rhodora, July, 1927, in a 

 paper resolving confusion among C. floridana, santensis and 

 beaumontii. Plants from South Carolina, collected by S. C. 

 Ravenel, sent to Tuckerman, and named C. santensis by him, 

 also were C. floridana. 



C. beaumontii is not reported north of North Carolina. I 

 found it in a cypress swamp at Manteo, N. C, in 1936. c. San- 

 tensis, long unknown north of South Carolina, has lately been 

 found in many places in Ocean, Atlantic, and Burlington Coun- 

 ties, N. J. C. floridana, named for its originally known stations 

 in Florida, was known only along the coastal plain north to 

 Maryland and Massachusetts up to 1927, when Robbins wrote 

 his paper in Rhodora. I have found it since in half a dozen places 

 in southern New Jersey, and in two places on Long Island. But 

 the most surprising new location, 70 miles from the coastal 

 plain to which Robbins and others regarded it as limited, was 

 on Shawangunk Mountain, near High Point, Sullivan County, 

 N. Y. It was found, by the writer, September, 1937 in ff. esqua- 

 mosa and typica, along blueberry pickers' paths for half a mile 

 on the way from the end of the fire truck road, below the fire 

 tower, toward the Ice Caves, at an altitude of about 2,100 feet. 



The occurrence of what had been supposed to be a coastal 

 plain Cladonia, so far from and above the sea, suggests specula- 

 tion as possible reasons. One might suppose analogies in the 

 presence on the Shawangunks, on Gertrude's Nose, near Lake 

 Minnewaska, at 1500 feet, of Corema Conradii, also generally a 

 coastal plain plant; and of Chamaecyparis thyoides in high 

 swamps on Kittatinny Mountain, N. J., at 1600 feet, although 

 it is generally limited to the swamps and stream courses of the 

 coastal plain from New Hampshire to Delaware. To invoke 



