302 Lichenes of New England. 
cephalodia are small and inconspicuous. . It would 
seem to resemble S. botryosum, Ach., considered by 
Borrer only “a dwarfish variety of S. paschale," but 
does not so well agree with Scherer’s specimen of 
that plant. I 
S: glaucescens : thallo erecto, albescente, basi nu- 
diusculo, ramis dichotomis, ramulis extremis granu- 
losis; cephalodiis convexis, albo-glaucescentibus. — 
Rocks; in the Notch of the White Mountains. 
Cephalodia white-glaucescent.. The color of the’ 
apothecia, in the known» species of this genus, is 
brown, of some shade or other, and I have seen nó 
notice of any variation from this.of a kind so striking 
as the présent: It does not appear to be accidental. 
CLADONIA mibuliformis Hoffm. b. taurica, . E 71 
Enum. l. c. — Highest summits of the. Adirondack . 
Mountains, N. Y., Mr. Macrae. The species did not 
occur on any of the Green Mountains, whose eleva- 
tion is considerably less than that of the above. | 
Patient topi Incocio, piale Oa vermicula- 
ris, y. glebulosa, Scheer. ! l. c. — On the ground; with 
«., and $., alpine regions of the White Mountains. 
Well named by Scherer glebulosa ; i.e: cloddy. 
C. gracilis, Hoffm. No less than thirteen varieties 
or forms of this species are given and named in the 
elaborate work of Scherer. The plant mentioned in 
my previous paper may perhaps be regarded as the 
typical form of the species with us. This is tall, deli- 
cate, and of a light-green color; the cups rather 
small, as well as the cephalodia. This occurred the 
last season on the summit of the Camel's Rump, Vt- 
