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Type: No. 276, Crypt. Exsic., Ehrhart. 1785-93 and in the Hoffman her- 
barium at Moscow? 
Type locality: Not given. 
Original description: None was given by Ehrhart; Hoffmann first described 
the species. “Erecta cespitosa laciniata: laciniis superne dilatatis turgidis 
fastigiatis.” Hoffm. FI. Deutsch. 3 : 140. 1795. 
Figure: Ach., Kongl. Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockholm 20 : PI. Q, f. iA. 
1799 - 
Westring, Svenska Lafvarnas Farghistoria PI. 12 , /. E. 1806. 
Observations: This species so long attributed to the lichen flora of our 
area, except by Nylander, I have not as yet found represented, even growing on 
Populus, when morphologically always most typical. Mr. Merrill also states 
that he has “seen no R. fastigiata {sensu Nyl.) from American sources. The 
typical plant is a large fastigiate species, with terminal, corymbose apothecia 
and curved spores. It is the common European plant, ours being smaller with 
straight spores. Ehrhart’s name, recognized by Drs. Wainio, Brandt, and 
Zahlbruckner, is a nomen nudum according to the International Code, and the 
species must be attributed to Hoffmann. Dr. Th. Fries’s citation “et Fig’’ of 
an Ehrhart plate (Licli. Scand. 35. 1871) which Dr. Wainio refers to, was an 
error. Ehrhart published no plates so far as I can learn. 
Ramalina fastigiata (Pers.) Ach. emend. 
Synonymy: Lichen fastigiatus Pers. Usteri Ann. Bot. 7 : 256 [156]. 1794. 
Ramalina fastigiata Ach. Lich. Univ. 603. 1810. 
Ramalina calicaris var. subfastigiata Nyl. Recog. mono. Ram. 
132. 1870. 
Ramalina calicaris var. subampliata Nyl. Recog. mono. Ram. 
132. 1870. In part. 
Ramalina calicaris p fa 
Type: In ’S Rijks Herbarium 
Leyden, Holland, fide author. 
Type Locality: Not given: Seven 
specimens compose the type material, 
one from “America,” one from “Mary- 
land, Amer.” The others without 
localities. It is quite evident from an 
examination of material that this 
plant is not populina of Ehrhart as 
commonly cited, for the latter species 
is not known from our area. Though 
in examining the Persoon and Ehrhart 
types I have of course not felt at 
liberty to expose the spores, yet the 
two plants give every external evidence of 
Moreover, Persoon’s plants came from a 
igiala Fr., sensu Tuckerman. 
Fig. 2.— Distribution of Ramalina fastigiata d 
representing the two distinct species, 
region (America) where plants with 
x One somewhat atypical plant from Alberta is not indicated in Fig. 2. 
