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Type: In the herbarium of the Museum d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, fide 
author. 
Type locality: “Terra Nova,” Despr6aux. 
Original description: “Differt thallo libenteus compresso magisque 
diviso, ramulis tenuibus apices sorediellis; sterilis.” 1. c. 
Figure: Plant World 17: 157./. 1. 1914. 
Diagnosis: Thallus caespitose, subcompressed, subrigid, foraminous, apices 
multifid-dendroid sorediate. Apothecia marginal. Spores straight. 
Description: Thallus caespitose (max. length 5 cm.), subrigid, pale vires- 
cent; cortex glabrous, foraminous; laciniae subcompressed, terete above, fistulous 
below (max. width 2 mm.) much branched, apices dendroid-multifid sorediate. 
Apothecia rare, marginal, concave, marginate (max. diam. 2 mm), disk yellow- 
ish. Spores ellipsoid, straight, ^ 5 -y 5 ^‘ 
Contingent phases: Unobserved. 
Substrata: Trees and shrubs. 
Distribution: Common in the Boreal Zone near 
the Coast. 
Stations: Newfoundland: Stevenville, Exploits; 
Miquelon: Quebec: Gaspe; Cape Breton: Maine: 
Rockport, Southwest Harbor, Rockland: New Hamp- 
shire: Mt. Monadnock? 
Observations: This species, distinguished from jr IG< 2 . — Distribution of 
farinacea (■ intermedia ) by basally fistulous, foraminous R. pollinariella. 
laciniae and dendroid-multifid apices, has been little 
understood until recently. It is distinctly Boreal in its range and the No. 
179 , Lich. Boreali-Americani referred to by Mr. Merrill cannot be placed here. 
I have observed specimens with a few scattered apothecia and after a careful 
study of the plant in the field in Newfoundland believe that we must consider 
it a species. 
Exsiccati: No. 105, Lich. Exsiccati, Merrill, Warren, Me., May 25, 1909. 
G. K. Merrill. 
Ramalina inflata Hook, and Tayl. 
Synonymy: Cetraria inflata Hook, and Tayl. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3:646. 
1844. 
Ramalina geniculata Hook, and Tayl. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3:655. 1844. 1 
Ramalina inflata J. D. Hook & Tayl. Lich. Antarct. 646. 1844. 
Type: In the Royal Herbarium at Kew, London, fide author. Topotype 
in the Taylor Collection, Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, 
Type locality: “Lord Auckland’s group.” 
Original description: “thallo in caespitem orbicularem congesto palli- 
dissime flavo divaricato-dichotomo lobis fistulosis intus stuppeis foraminulosis 
1 Type loc.: “New Zealand.” Orig. descript.: “thallo laxe caespitoso albido-cinereo 
glabro dichotomo ramosissimo, ramis intricatis lobis linearibus hinc concaviusculis acuminatis, 
gemmis dispersis granulatis statim linearibus, apotheciis planis concoloribus margine tenui inte- 
gerrimo subtus thalli laciniam emittentibus.” 1. c. Fig.: 1. c. PI. 79, f. 2. 
