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hundred feet below the summit, C. amaurocraea was found 

 plentifully and in good condition, in the forms celotea and /z<r- 

 catiformis, with definite cups, and oxyclada, with subulate tips. 

 The range of C. amaurocraea seems to be incorrectly given 

 in our most recent American reference. Fink's "Lichen Flora 

 of the United States," which states, on Page 253, that it is 

 found "on soil, throughout the United States." Tuckerman's 

 "North American Lichens," Part \, page 250, states the range 

 better, as "on the earth in alpine districts," although, as will 

 be recorded in this paper later on, I found it at Tadoussac, 

 Quebec, at the mouth of the Saguenay River, only fifty feet 

 above the level of the St. Lawrence. I have found it, or had it 

 from others, in the northeastern states only from high summits 

 in Maine, northern New Hampshire, northern \'ermont and the 

 northern Adirondacks. I have not heard of it from the high 

 southern Appalachians, where other northern Cladoniae found 

 refuge, like other northern plants, in the migrations northward 

 after the last Ice Age. I doubt if it occurs, south of the stations 

 mentioned, in northeastern North America. It becomes com- 

 mon at lower levels in Newfoundland, Labrador and Greenland. 



A large and conspicuous Cladonia on this part of the trail 

 was a clump of the long green podetia, some cupped, most of 

 them subulate tipped, of C. gracilis, var. elongata, f. esquamosa 

 (C. elongata of some authors), some of them four inches long. 

 C. rangiferina, f . stygia, the mountain form with the lower parts 

 of the podetia blackened; C. gracilis, var. chordalis; C. alpestris, 

 and squamosa, also occurred. 



In an old field, growing up with spruce, east of Stratton, 

 were C. alpestris, mitis, rangiferina, and multiformis, ff. finkii 

 and subascypha, the last found within the Torrey Botanical 

 Club range, at moderate altitudes, around 1,200-2,000 feet. 



Continuing by automobile through New Brunswick, to 

 Gaspe, and from New Richmond up the old mine road along 

 the Grand Cascapedia River, we left our cars at the Federal 

 Lead and Zinc Mine, and took to our feet, our tents and dufifle 

 being toted in a wagon over the road past Lake St. Anne to our 

 camp at the headwaters of the Madeleine River, south of 

 Table Top, our principal objective on the trip. Climbing to the 

 plateau, next day, we explored Mount Richardson, 4,150 feet, 

 the highest knob on the southwestern corner of this large 



