Collecting Cladoniae in Maine and Quebec 



Raymond H. Torrey 



About 175 packets of Cladoniae, several new to the writer, 

 some new to his helpful instructor. Dr. A. W. Evans of Yale 

 University, with whom he shared them, and who confirmed or 

 corrected determinations; and most of them robust and well 

 fruited beyond their conditions of more southern latitudes and 

 lower levels, were collected on a two weeks' trip of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, July 2-18, 1937. 



The first collections were made on Mount Bigelow, near 

 Stratton, in northwestern Maine, one of those fine summits in 

 the western part of the State, which have not been well botan- 

 ized, and which would probably yield many alpine and boreal 

 species of plants on thorough search. The party climbed to the 

 eastern summit, 4,050 feet, from the Dead River side, following 

 the Maine sector of the Appalachian Trail. This 2,050 mile foot- 

 path from Mount Katahdin, Maine, to Mount Oglethorpe, 

 Georgia, is maintained by outdoor clubs of the Atlantic sea- 

 board states, federated in the Appalachian Trail Conference, 

 with headquarters in Washington, D. C. 



Cladoniae began to appear plentifully on the ledges near the 

 edge of the timber at about 3,500 feet, on the southeast shoulder. 

 Here were found C. uncialis, rangiferina, finibriata and mitis. 

 On the northeast slope, as the trail neared the summit, among 

 low heaths, such as Vaccinium vitis-idaea, var. minus, uli- 

 ginosum and caespitosum; Empetrum nigrum, and the Iceland 

 Moss Lichen, Cetraria islandica, were Cladonia associations of 

 more northern character, including C. amaurocraea, C. gracilis, 

 var. chordalis, f. leucochlora ; C. deformis; my old friend of Long 

 Island and the New Jersey Pine Barrens, C. squamosa, f. levi- 

 corticata, m. rigida, which I meet from sea level to 5,000 feet; 

 C. chlorophaea, f. simplex, almost equally ubiquitous; C. pleu- 

 rota, nemoxyna, ochrochlora, alpestris, rangiferina and uncialis. 



On the summit, near the fire observation tower, another 

 old friend of wide latitude and altitude, was C. cristatella, ff. 

 beauvoisii and vestita; with C. gracilis, var. dilatata, some very 

 small in this exposed spot; C. bacillaris, fimbriata and chloro- 

 phaea. 



Descending west along the Appalachian Trail, about a 



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