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Eigure: Annal Wettau. Gesell. Nat. 5: PL io, /. 7. 1810. 
Diagnosis: Phallus caespitose, terete, rigid, apices filiform, apothecia 
.small, lateral. 
Description: Phallus caespitose (max. alt. 4 cm.), rigid, virescent; cortex 
•striate; laciniae branched, dichotomous, terete, apices filiform. Apothecia 
■common, small (max. diam. 2.5 mm.), lateral, convex, marginate, disk buff. 
■Spores subfusiform, straight, 7 g p,. 
Contingent Phases: Unobserved. 
Substrata: On trees and shrubs. 
Distribution: West Indies. 
Stations: Cuba. Jamaica. Porto Rico. 
Observations: This species, so long attributed to our area, was in the 
main elucidated by Mr. Merrill. Nylander’s conception was not correct, and it 
seems doubtful if he ever studied the type. R. rigida was described by Acharius 
from Santo Domingo, based on Persoon’s MS (“Secundum specimen olim missum”) 
Lichen rigidus and called “synonymon est” by Acharius with Persoon’s published 
attenuata. The words “tuberculis sorediformibus adsperso” of Acharius’ descrip- 
tion are not true of the Persoon type now in existence, — perhaps they were true 
of the “Secundum specimen.’’ This, however, does not affect the case in lieu of 
Acharius’ synonymy. His type locality also is as for attenuata. It is a loosely 
caespitose, slender, terete, non - papillate species with small lateral apothecia and 
subfusiform spores. Its reaction with KOH is positive. 
Note: Ramalina gracilis (Pers.) Nyl. Pers. Gaudich. Voy. Uran. 209. 1827. 
Type Locality: “Brasilia (Rio Janeiro).” Original Description: “parva, 
ramis tenuissimis teretibus attenuatis, scutellis lateralibus.” 1 . c. Figure: 
Mey. et Flot. Nova Act. Nat. Curios. 19: Suppl. 1: Pl. 3, /. 2. 1843. Ob- 
servations: This species is in my opinion identical with the foregoing species. 
R. gracilenta Fr. is not a plant of our area so far as observed. It is distinguished 
by fusiform spores. 
Ramalina Willeyi sp. nov. 
Synonymy: In part Ramalina rigida sensu Tuck. 
Type: No. 746, in author’s herbarium. 
Type Locality: Nonquitt, Mass. 
Original Description: Thallo solido caespitoso, cartilagineo, rigido, 
ramis torulosis, teretibus, tuberculariis, apicibus attenuatis; apotheciis magnis, 
terminalibus, calcaratis aut radiatis; sporae ellipsoidae. 
Figure: Howe, Common and Conspicuous Lich. N. Eng. Pt. 1, Pl. 1, 
f. 3. 1906. 
Diagnosis: Phallus caespitose, terete or subterete, rigid , tuber culate, apices 
filiform, apothecia large, spurred or radiate. 
Description: Phallus caespitose (max. alt. 7 cm.), rigid, virescent; cortex 
nitidous, tuberculate; laciniae branched, dichotomous, subterete, not uncom- 
monly compressed below (max. diam. 2 mm.), often torulose-angulate, apices 
filiform. Apothecia abundant, large, mostly subterminal and spurred (rarely 
