Mrs. Anderson also found on this mountain several forms of 

 Parmelia physodes, Pyxine sorediata, and Cetraria Oakesiana in 

 fruit, which usually occurs only in the north. There was a little 

 of Parmelia Cladonia, mixed, as usual, with Evernia thamnodes 

 and furfuracea var. ceratea and Parmelia physodes. 



A descent to the col north of Giant Ledge, and a climb of 750 

 feet up the cliffs and steep slopes, to the summit of Panther, 

 3750 feet, disclosed plenty of Parmelia Cladonia, within the 

 last 100 feet of altitude, especially in a shallow wet basin, with 

 much dead fir evidently overturned by ice storms. If this was 

 Mrs. Harris' station, it is certainly still there. There is another 

 summit, a mile north, 200 feet lower, which was not reached, 

 where it may also occur. 



Mrs. Anderson found this lichen in small quantity on North 

 Mountain, east of Haines Falls, last autumn, and she thinks it 

 occurs on Wittenberg, which is probable as that summit is 3800 

 feet. It seems likely that it may occur on Slide, 4200; on the 

 Blackheads, nearly 4,000; on Hunter, 4025 feet; on the wild 

 Plateau Mountain, 3900 feet; and probably on some others. 



Parmelia Cladonia has had other names, the present being 

 the name given by Dr. Zahlbruckner, which must presumably 

 be accepted. Tuckerman called it, or a phase of it, Evernia fur- 

 furacea, var. Cladonia, and it certainly looks like an Evernia. 

 As found in the Catskills, it occurs with an unquestionable 

 Evernia, E. thamnodes, and with another plant, which seems to 

 fit Evernia furfuracea var. ceratea, as described by R. Heber 

 Howe, Jr., in a paper on "The Genus Evernia as Represented in 

 North and Middle America," Botanical Gazette, 51: 431-442, 

 June, 1911. As the writer understands Parmelia Cladonia, it is 

 densely intertangled, glabrous gray above, and more or less 

 solid black on the channelled under side. In the Catskill stations 

 it occurs from tiny plants \ inch long, on living firs, to masses 

 six or eight inches long and two or three in diameter, on dying 

 or dead trees, especially in the Big Indian Mt. locality, the 

 amplest found by the writer in the Catskills. This station is not 

 difficult to reach, by automobile and on foot. One may drive 

 via Kingston and Arkville, then by dirt road south to Seager 

 and follow the yellow blazed state trail to the west shoulder of 

 Big Indian, near the height of land at about 3400 feet before 

 dropping off south into the valley of Biscuit Creek. Turn west, 



