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Frullania Asagrayana Mont. On spruce tree, Young's, southeast, 5360, 

 5361. On ledge near Harbor, 5394. On rocks, high land west of Harbor, 5399. 

 Frullania ehoracensis Gottsche. Willow trunk, Young's 5388. 

 Hartford, Connecticut 



OBITUARY 



LuRA Lavonia Perrine, one of the charter members of the Sullivant Moss 

 Society, died at Victoria, B. C, on October seventh, 1919, of a paralytic stroke. 

 She was born at Detroit, Michigan, of Huguenot ancestry, and has been for over 

 twenty-seven years a member of the faculty of the State Normal School at Valley 

 City, North Dakota, first as professor of Natural Sciences, specializing in Geog- 

 raphy and Geology, later as Curator of Museums. The last ten years she spent 

 developing her idea of the practical school museum, and the volume of illustra- 

 tive material in daily use in the class rooms of the Normal (including her private 

 collection of over 30,000 post cards) attest the value of this work. Miss Perrine 

 has spent her vacations collecting on both the east and west American coasts, 

 and though her health has been failing for several years, her splendid ambition 

 and devotion to her life-work drove her to the very end. It seems perhaps fitting 

 that her life should go out in the tide of the ocean that she loved best. 



The above has just been received from Mrs. McDonald, the sister of Miss 

 Perrine, in response to a request for some particulars, who also adds that her's 

 was a wonderful life of unselfish devotion, and that hundreds of old students in 

 Valley City expressed their love and appreciation of her efforts. 



For many years I carried on a rather regular correspondence with Miss Per- 

 rine, especially the winter she spent in Florida. Lately it became only an annual 

 event, but I was always glad to get her bright and newsy letters. 



The Sullivant Moss Society extend its sympathy to her family. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. Annie Morrill Smith 



NOTES ON MEXICAN LICHENS 



Albert C. Herre 



While looking over some Mexican plants, principally mosses and liverworts, 

 though including some of the higher plants, with T. S. Brandegee, I noticed a 

 number of lichens more or less entangled with or attached to them. A careful 

 study of these plants revealed the following species: 



L.Cladonia ceratophylla (Sw). Eschw. Zacuapan, Vera Cruz; also col- 

 lected on Iztaccihuatl. 



2. Cladonia squamosa (Scop.) Hoffm. Zacuapan, Vera Cruz. 



3. Cladonia fimhriata (L.) Hoffm. Boca del Monte. 



4. Leptogium marginellum (Sw.) Mont. Zacuapan. 



5. Leptogium foveolatum Nyl. This is not strongly differentiated from L. 

 reticulatum Mont. Zacuapan. 



