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pioides from the Blue Mountains, Sussex County (3, p. 373), 

 but no specimens so named are present in his collection. For 

 figures of C. pleurota f. decor ata Vainio, see Robbins and Blake 

 (12, pi. 210, f. 12) and Torrey (18, pi. 1, f. 11). Some of the 

 specimens listed above approach this form. 



10a.* Cladonia pleurota var. frondescens (Nyl.) Oliv. 

 (4, p. 403). Burlington: Lower Bank (1932). Ocean: Lake- 

 hurst {Torrey, 1934). 



11.* Cladonia Ravenelii Tuck. Syn. North Amer. Lich. 

 1: 254. 1882. On old wood. Ocean: Seaside Park (1932, det. 

 Sandstede). This interesting and variable species is mostly sub- 

 tropical and tropical in its distribution, and its discovery in 

 New Jersey represents a marked extension of its known range 

 to the northward. It agrees with C. macilenta in giving a bright 

 yellow color with KOH, but is distinguished by its minute pri- 

 mary squamules and by the granulate-verrucose surface of 

 the podetia, which may or may not be cup-forming. 



12. Cladonia cristatella Tuck. (4, p. 403). On old wood 

 and on soil rich in humus; widely distributed in New Jersey 

 and very variable. Austin listed the species from Closter (2, p. 

 165) and Eckfeldt (3, p. 374) added Atco, Camden County 

 (Eckfeldt), and May's Landing, Atlantic County (Peters). 

 Vainio (22 1 , p. 218) cites it simply from "New Jersey," on the 

 basis of specimens collected by Miss Biddlecome. Torrey has 

 since reported C. cristatella from Andover, Sussex County (17, 

 p. 50), while Thompson has listed it from the Wawayanda ce- 

 dar swamp (14, p. 21). Some of the specimens upon which these 

 records were based are listed below under definite forms, but no 

 specimens from May's Landing have been available for study. 



12a. Cladonia cristatella f. Beauvoisii (Del.) Vainio (4, 

 p. 405; 12, pi. 210, f. 14, in part; 18, pi. l,f. 5, in part). Atlan- 

 tic: Inskip (Blake, 1928, det. Robbins). Bergen: Closter (Aus- 

 tin, no date, N. Y., listed in 2, p. 165, as C. cristatella). Burling- 

 ton: Bass River State Forest (Torrey, 1934), East Plains (Lutz, 

 1932, see 8, p. 12), Lower Bank (1932), New Gretna (Musch, 

 1928, det. Robbins), near Pemberton (E. C. and G. M. Leonard, 

 1928), and West Plains (Lutz, 1932, see 8, p. 12). Camden: Atco 

 (Eckfeldt, 1882, P., listed in 3, p. 374, as C. cristatella; Green, 

 1882, N. Y.). Monmouth: Navesink (Evans, 1934). Ocean: 



