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Ramalina minuscula Nyl. Recog. mono. Ram. 164. 1870. 
Ramalina pusilla (Prev.) sensu Tuckerman. 
Type: Not traced. Dr. Wainio reported the type as in the herbarium 
[Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Kabinett der Kaiserl. Universitat] at 
Moscow in 1886. 
Type locality: Not given: Germany? 
Original description: “erecta laciniata squarrosa compressa rigida nuda.” 
1. c. 
Figure: Dill. Hist. Muse., PL 21 , /. 55 G. 
Diagnosis: Phallus caespitose, ( 10 mm. alt.), subterete, nitidous, foraminous y 
apothecia terminal, often spurred. Spores straight. 
Description: Thallus caespitose (max. length 10 mm.), subrigid, stramine- 
ous to virescent; cortex nitidous, foraminous; laciniae subterete, dichotomous 
(max. width 2 mm.), apices furcate, attenuate. Apothecia common, terminal, 
concave at length convex, marginate finally immarginate (max. diam. 3 mm.), 
disk wax color. Spores ellipsoid, straight, ^37^. 
Contingent phases: Unobserved. 
Substratum: On trees. 
Distribution: In the Transition 
and Boreal Zones from Newfoundland 
to Nantucket Island westward to Yukon 
and Minnesota. 
Stations: Quebec: Gaspe; New- 
foundland: Middle Arm, St. George’s 
Bay; Nova Scotia: Sandy Cove, Grand 
Manan; Massachusetts: Nantucket; 
Ontario: Nipigon River; Minnesota: 
Snowbank Lake, Rainy Lake City, 
Beaver Bay, Gunflint, Grand Portage Island, Koocheching; Yukon: Dawson. 
Observations: This minute species with waxy apothecia and shiny foramin- 
ous laciniae appears at first to be an immature condition of fastigiata. It is 
closely related to the following inflata. In fact, the range of the typical dilacerata 
does not extend west of a line running from Minnesota to Yukon and inter- 
grades inseparably into inflata from this point westward. 
Exsiccati: No. 20J, Lich. Boreali-Amer. Cummings. Middle Arm, New- 
foundland, Apr. 3, 1897, A. C. Waghorne. 
No. 3, Canadian Lichens, Macoun, Quebec, 1882-4. 
Fig. 1. — Distribution of R. dilacerata and 
inflata. 
Ramalina pollinariella Nyl. 
Synonymy: Ramalina minuscula var. pollinariella Nyl. Recog. mono. Ram., 
165 [67]. 1870. 
Ramalina pusilla $ geniculata Tuck. Synop. No. Amer. Lich. 1:26. 1882. 
Ramalina pollinariella Nyl. Enum. Lich. Freti Behr. 7. 1888. 
Ramalina dilacerata f. pollinariella Ann. Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 47 : 
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