300 Lichenes of New England. 
Hals. l. c, Mass. Catal. — Trees, in the northern 
parts of New England, not uncommon ; as. yet in- 
fertile. 
Borrera furfuracea, Ach., Hals. l. c., E. T. 
Enum. l. c. — Trunks of trees in old woods, not 
very uncommon. Mr: Russell has made this plant 
an objeet of some attention, and has favored me with 
abundant specimens from Chelmsford. | I have never 
seen it in fruit. There occurs in the subalpine re- 
gions of the White Mountains, and I found the same 
on the summits of one of the Green Mountains in 
Vt., a smaller, more glabrous form of this: species, 
which seems to bé near the variety called 8. ceratea. 
I have also from Chelmsford another small: variety, 
remarkably *' floecoso-furfuraceous ” above. 
ConNiCULARIA. The two species of this genus al- 
luded to in my former paper, as occurring on the 
White Mountains, I have this year obtained in abun- 
dance, and find, as I suspected, that they are identi- 
cal with two European forms. : 
C. aculeata, Ach. Meth., Schzr.! l.'c., Moug: & 
Nestl.! 1. e., De Cand. 1. c.; Hook. 1. c., Coralloides 
aculeatum, Hoffm. (cit. Wahlenb.), Lichen aculea- 
tus, Ehrh., Ach. Prodr., Wahlenb. 1. c. — On the 
ground; alpine regions of the White Mountains. 
This handsome species occurred abundantly on the 
dry soil, formed apparently by the recent disintegra- - 
tion of the mica-slate, on the western descent of the 
summit of Mt. Pleasant, and elsewhere, in similar 
places. It was frequent in fruit. This (the fruit) is 
