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to 1200 feet, west of Torne Pond, proved rich in ground species, 

 although tree forms are scarce, probably owing to numerous 

 fires and frequent cutting. 



The most unusual form was Cladonia coccifera, with red 

 apothecia, on proliferations on sea-green cups. Cladonia chloro- 

 phaea, forma carpophora, was numerous along the Owl Trail 

 over Hawk Hill, and displayed a great variety of proliferations, 

 some approaching the form homodactyla, in which the sinuses 

 between the stipes bearing the brown apothecia were so deep 

 as almost to obliterate the cups. Cladonia mitrula, forma im- 

 bricatula, was common, with its large brown apothecia. Three 

 of the "Reindeer Mosses," Cladonia rangiferina, tenuis and 

 impexa, were found growing together on the borders of fiat 

 ledges. 



Among the crustose lichens, several colonies of Lecanora 

 tartarea were seen, on glacial erratics, mostly. A brown thallus, 

 with conspicuous black hypothallus, seemed to be Rhizocarpon 

 ignobile. Two species of what appeared to be Buellias, — B. spuria, 

 and B. parasema, were found on smoothly polished quartzite 

 cobbles in a brook bed. 



The red fruited Cladonia cristatella, in the forms Beauvoisii, 

 ramosa, squamosissima and vestita, as described by Professor 

 A. W. Evans, in his "Cladoniae of Connecticut," was common 

 and in fine condition and color. Peltigera canina also occurred. 

 Cladonia chlorophaea, formae simplex and prolifera, were seen, 

 the former being the most common cup bearing lichen in this 

 region. Baeomyces roseus was not in as good condition as in 

 early winter, the November crop of stipes being withered, but 

 a new set was starting. A small colony of Cladonia verticillata, 

 forma apoticta was found. 



An interesting lichen was the Woolly Crocynia, Crocynia 

 lanuginosa. This species, Crocynia of Annie Lorain Smith's 

 "British Lichens," and Amphiloma lanuginosa of Fink's "Lichens 

 of Minnesota," is, as Fink says, in the process of becoming a 

 lichen, but is not quite settled yet as to what its apothecia, if, 

 when and as developed, are going to be like. Its algal symbiont is 

 probably Protococcus, but its fungal symbiont is yet uncertain, 

 for it has not produced any apothecia to give a clue. It takes 

 various forms according to the substratum, felt-like white or 

 yellowish masses on mosses, or bases of trees; thinner and 



