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Type: In the Museum d’histoire naturelle, Paris, fide author. 
Type locality: “Mexico,” Ghiesbreght. 
Original description: “Tenuior, sporis brevioribus (longit. 0.012-22 
millim., crassit. 0.003-4 millim.).” 1. c. 
Figure: Pl. XII, f. 3. 
Observations: Of this variety I have seen no examples save the type. 
Ramalina anceps Nyl. 
Synonymy: Ramalina anceps Nyl., Synop. Lich. 290. 1858-60. 
Type: In the Museum d’histoire naturelle, Paris fide author. 
Type locality: “Guadalupa Antillarum.” 
Original description: “Thallus stramineous vel stramineo-pallescens vel 
pallidus nitidiusculus elongatus (1-2 pedalis) pendulous dichotome ramosissimus 
compressiusculo-anceps, sat gracilis, ramis valde attenuatis flexuosis intricatis.” 
1. c. 
Figure: PL XIII, f. 2: 
Observations: This Nylander species, distinguished largely from R. usnea 
by its reddish reaction with KOH, paler, more terete and flexuous branches, I 
have seen beside the type only one specimen from Grenada, and one questionable 
example from Florida. Nylander reported it from Cuba and Martinque, and 
Mr. Merrill from Jamaica. It seems to be hardly more than a chemical species. 
Note: Ramalina peranceps Nyl., Flora 34 : 41 1. 1876. This species, 
described from Cuba, I have not seen. It was defined as follows: “Affinis R. 
ancipiti (etiam medulla similiter K e flavo ferruginose tincta), sed thallo magis 
coinpresso-complanato (lato. circiter 1 millim. vel tenuiore); sporae fusiformi- 
oblongae curvulae, longit. o. 015-21 millim., crassit. 0.004-6 millim. Thallus 
estriatulus (alioquin accedens ad stirpem R. usneoidis, implexus, in specimene 
viso longit. saltern 8 centimetre (sed facile longitudinis majoris obveniens). — 
Datur No. 23.” 1 . c. 
Ramalina sub anceps Nyl., Flora 34 : 41 1. 1876. This species, also described 
from Cuba, is, like the last, of questionable validity. It was described as follows: 
“Fere subspecies Ramalinae usneoidis (varietati usneoidellae proxima), sed facie 
R. ancipitis, thallo autem intus K — - et sporis fusiformibus (longit. 0.012-24 mil- 
lim., crassit. 0.0025-0.0040 millim.). Thallus stramineus compressiusculo- 
anceps latit. 0.5 millim. vel tenuior), in . speciminibus visis longit. saltern 15, 
centimetrorum adtingens, implexus, — Datur vis 22, 24,” 1 . c. 
Ramalina dasypoga Tuck., Suppl. Enum. No. Amer. Lich., Sill. Amer. Jour. 
Sci. Arts 28 : 203. 1859. This Cuban species, described by Tuckerman, was 
defined as follows: “thallo filamentoso rigidiusculo fragile tereti laevigato viridi- 
fuscenscente (pallescente) ramis elongatis dichotome ramosis ultimis aciiminatis 
nodulosis; apotheciis concavis subcrenulato disparente. Sporae ellipsoideae 
uniseptatae curvulae hyalinae diam. duplo longiores,” 1. c. I have not seen an 
example of this species nor the type. Owing to its spores and general characters, 
it perhaps would have better been placed, in the present work, following R. 
attenuata. 
