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margine ramulosis; apothecia luteo-testacea pallida (latit. 2 millim. vel minora), 
receptaculo laeviusculo (margine integro vel subcrenulato) ; sporae ellipsoideae 
vel ellipsoideo-oblongae, curvatae, longit. 0.012-17 millim., crassit. 0.006-8 
millim.” 1 . c. 
Series: Cilia tae ser. novo. 
Medulla arachnoid, cortex thick (80-105/*) hyphae divaricate above gonidia, 
externally black ciliate. 
Ramalina crinita Tuck. 
Synonymy: Ramalina crinita Tuck. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 10 : 43. 1883. 
Type: In the Sprague herbarium, Boston Society of Natural History, 
Boston, fide author. 
Type Locality: “San Diego, California.” C. R. Orcutt, March, 1863. 
Original Description: “Thallus caespitose, rigid, compressed, subdicho- 
tomous, linear-laciniate, at length much dilated, greenish-glaucous, the divi- 
sions smooth, interruptedly white striate, and becoming lacunose, attenuate at 
the summits, and clothed at the margins more or less thickly with strong, soli- 
tary or clustered, finally branched, black fibrils; apothecia middling-sized to 
large (3-10 mm. in width), subterminal and lateral, subpodicellate, varying as 
to smoothness as the thallus, the margins blackened; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 
15-20 . ,, , 
g _ 6 mic. /. c. 
Figure: PL VIII, f. 1. 
Diagnosis: Thallus caespitose, compressed, rigid, beset with black fibrils , 
apothecia marginal, spores straight. 
Description: Thallus caespitose (max. length 8 cm.), rigid, virescent; 
cortex striate, sublacunose, ciliate with black fibrils; laciniae compressed, ex- 
panded, subdichotomous (max. width 20 mm.), apices attenuate. Apothecia 
lateral or subterminal, concave, marginate, margins black- 
edged (max. diam. 10 mm.), disk concolorous. Spores 
ellipsoid, straight, g _ 6 /*. 
Contingent Phases: Unobserved. 
Substrata: On trees. 
Distribution: Common in the Austral Zone in 
southern California and Lower California. 
Stations: California: Point Loma; San Diego. 
Lower California: Todos Santos. 
Observations: This remarkable and easily recognized 
Ramalina has a very local distribution. Its black ciliate 
laciniae at once distinguish it from any other species. 
Fig 3. — Distribution 
Ramalina crinita. 
Explanation of Plates VII and VIII. 
Plate VII. 
1. The Nylander type of Ramalina subcalicaris at Paris (nat. size). 
2 and 5. The Nylander type of Ramalina denticulata var. canalicularis at Hel- 
singfors (much reduced). 
