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262. Fontinalis Sullivantii Lindb. Huletts Lg. (Levy). 



^63. Dichelyma capillaceum (L.) B. & S. Fort Edward (Howe) in (CH); swamp 

 south of Shushan, on submerged bushes (Dobbin); bog north of Thomp- 

 sons gravel-bed and wet place in woods south of Sugar Loaf Mt., base of 

 shrubs in shallow water. 

 Hudson Falls, N. Y. 



TWO PUBLICATIONS ON TROPICAL AMERICAN LICHENS 



L. W. Riddle 



There have come to my attention within the past year, two publications 

 ■describing a large number of new lichens from Mexico and the West Indies. As 

 neither publication is likely to have a general distribution, it seems desirable to 

 •call attention to them by means of this review. 



The first is a folio brochure of 31 pages published independently in Mexico 

 City, in 1914, with the title: "Lichens du Mexique (Etats de Puebla et du Mich- 

 •oacan) recueillis par le Frere Arsene Brouard" by Dr. M. Bouly de Lesdain. 

 This is an enumeration of 226 species of Mexican lichens collected mainly by 

 Brother Arsene, but also by Brother Nicolas and Brother Amable. Sixty- five 

 •species are described as new. Latin diagnoses are given in each case, but there 

 are no indications of the relationships of the species, and no critical notes. The 

 generic affinities of the new species are as follows (in cases where the nomencla- 

 ture and generic limitations differ from those of Engler and Prantl, the latter 

 names are given in parenthesis): Eight species are described as new in Buellia; 

 ,5 each in Parmelia, Lecanora, Pertusaria; 4 in Lecidea; 3 each in Rinodina, 

 Acarospora, Catillaria,. Placodium {Caloplaca in part), and Arthoihelium ; 2 each 

 in Physcia, Caloplaca, Aspicilia {Lecanora in part), Blastenia, Psora (Lecidea 

 in part), and Staurothele; one each in Nephromium, Heppia, Pyrenodesmia 

 (Caloplaca in part), Lecania, Megalospora, Bilimbia, Bacidia, Toninia, Arthonia, 

 Arthopyrenia and Collema. 



The second publication forms Part 7 of the Annales Academiae Scientiarum 

 Fennicae, Series A, volume 6 (Helsingfors, Finland, 1915). This Academy was 

 founded in 191 1, and must not be confused with the well-known Societas pro 

 fauna et flora Fennica. So far as I am aware, the annales of the new Academy 

 are received currently in this country only at the Smithsonian Institution. The 

 "Parts" of the volume are paged separately. Part 7 is entitled "Additamenta 

 ad Lichenographiam Antillarum illustrandam" by Edvard Wainio, probably 

 the greatest living authority on the lichens of tropical America. His"Lichenes 

 Antillarum" was published in the London Journal of Botany in 1895-1896. 



The present paper is 226 pages in length and enumerates a large number 

 of interesting species and varieties from the American Virgin Islands, Guadel- 

 oupe, Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Domingo, and a few of the smaller adjacent is- 

 lands. The material was collected for the most part by C. Raunkiaer, F. 



