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Figure: PI. XI. f. 2 . 
Diagnosis: Phallus caespitose, compressed , rigid, striate-tuber culate apices 
compressed, apothecia lateral, spores substraight (KOH+ ?) 
Description: Thallus caespitose (max. length 8 cm), rigid, stramineous to 
virescent; cortex glabrous, striate-tuberculate; laciniae compressed throughout, 
dichotomous, apices compressed attenuate. Apothecia common, lateral, occa- 
sionally spurred, concave at length convex, marginate (max. diam. 4 mm.), 
disk buff. Spores fusiform, straight 34 ju. 
Contingent phases: (a) Stramineous. 
Substrata: On trees. 
Distribution: Not uncommon in the lower Austral Zone from Massachu- 
setts (Westport) to Texas and west to California, (phase a.) 
Stations: California: San Roque Island; San Benito Island; Madgalena 
Island; Massachusetts: Westport; New York: Southampton; Texas: Corpus 
Christi; Galveston Bay; Florida: Jacksonville; George; Daytona; St. George 
Island; Green Coe Spring; Jamaica: L 6 uisiana: New Orleans; Pt. a la Hache. 
Observations: This species suggesting the stock of R. complanata except 
for its fusiform spores is distinguished from R. Montagnei by its lateral apothecia, 
white striate laciniae, compressed apices, and generally reddish to brown re- 
action with KOH. It appears to intergrade into R. Montagnei and would be 
more logically classed as a variety except for its larger spores. The species was 
recorded from Westport, Mass., by Henry Willey under Ramalina subfraxinea 
Nyl. (Lich. New Bed. 5. 1892) 1 and I collected a specimen at Westport Harbor 
during the summer of 1913. From Massachusetts it is found along the coast 
to Texas, and a stramineous phase which may deserve a name appears on the 
California coast. 
Exsiccati: No. 268 . Lich. Exsic. Merrill. Daytona, Fla., Mar. 7, 1911. 
G. K. Merrill . — called R. Montagnei. 
Note: Ramalina subasperata Nyl. Flora 34: 41 1. 1876. This species 
described from Cuba I have not observed. Nylander defined it as follows: “Ac- 
cedens versus complanatum, sed thallo subtereti aut subcompressiusculo et sporae 
tenuiores. Thallus pallidus laevis, caespitose ramosus, superficie tuberculis 
albidis minutis subpapillosis sparsis nonnihil exasperatus, firrnus (altit. circiter 
2 centimeter; latit. 0.5-0. 8 millim.); apothecia cameo-pallida, saepius glaucoal- 
bido-suffusa (latit. 1-4 millim.), concava, receptaculo laevi parce tuberculis 
albis evanescentibus notato et ramulo corniculiformi subtus appendiculato ; 
sporae subfusiformi oblongae, vulgo leviter curvulae vel subrectae, longit. 0.012- 
18 millim. crassit. 0.0035-45 millim. — Datur no. 25 c. d.” 1. c. It seems quite 
probable that this is synonymous with the preceeding species, though its spores 
are said to be largely curved. 
Ramalina Bermudina Stirt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 370. 1874. “Thallus 
depresso-caespitosus, sat late expansus rigescens, laciniatus, laciniis linearibus 
dichotome multifidis, pallidus v. stramineo-pallidus v.-rufescens, subnitidus. 
Spores recorded as 18-25X3-4/L Specimen preserved in U. S. Nat. Herbarium. 
