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Stations: Florida: Ponce, Daytona; Louisiana: St. Martinsville; Cuba: 
San Jose de las Sejas; Jamaica. 
Observations: This species, distinct from R. attenuata on account of its 
spores, seems rarely to intergrade with the following species. Nylander de- 
termined cotypes (Herbarium Lenorm) of Muller Arg. as this species before the 
latter described his wholly compressed, but otherwise superficially similar species. 
Until a larger series of specimens is examined the true status of the two plants 
is uncertain. Miss Cummings’s distribution under R. r. Montagnaei (see Exsic. 
with next species) KOH — may be referred to R. stenospora KOH + as also 
the material KOH — I recorded from Southampton, Long Island (Rhodora 
12 : 7. 1910). Tuckerman recorded the present species from South Caro- 
lina, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. Miss Cummings’s material, and two 
specimens sent me by Dr. A. C. Herre from San Benito and San Roque islands, 
California, are alike in their reaction KOH+, have lateral as well as marginal 
apothecia, with distinctly striate laciniae, and represent no doubt the following 
species. The Cotypes (KOH+) before referred to of course belong under R. 
stenospora. 
Exsiccati: No. 181. Decades No. Amer. lich. Cummings, etc. Corpus 
Christi, Texas, Mhr. 1895, A. A. Heller. 
No. 112. Lich. Boreali-Amer. Cummings, etc. the same, both called Rama- 
lina Montagnei De Not. 
Ramalina stenospora Mull. Arg. Flora 60 : 477, 478. 1877. 
Synonymy: Ramalina caespi- 
tosa Tayl. in herb. 
Type: In Herbier Boissier, 
Chambesy, Switzerland, fide 
author. 
Type locality: “Nouvelle 
Orleans Louisianiae.” 
Original description: “thal- 
li laciniae 1-1 J^-pollicares, lanceo- 
lato-lineares, depauperato-lineari- 
laciniatae, plano-compressae, sub- 
inde minute lacinulatae, 1-4 mm. 
latae, subacuminatae, rigescentes, 
fuscescenti - pallidae, irregulariter 
et crebre albido-striato-costulatae, 
caeterum laeves, v. interdum tuberculis paucis marginalibus adspersae, opacae; 
apothecia lateralia et terminalia, praeter juvenilia subpapillari-gyalectiformia 
circ. 2-3 y 2 mm. lata, podicellata, dorso subconcentrice subsoredioso-albo-lineo- 
lata margo subinteger et tenuis, discus demum plano-convexus, albescenti- 
pruinosus; sporae 15-22^. longae, tantum 3 v. 3>^u- latae, naviculares, utrinque 
acutuisculae, rectae v. hinc inde obsolete curvatae v. obsolete sigmoideae.” 
i. c. 
Fig. i. — Distribution of Ramalina Montagnei 
and R. stenospora. 
