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for this specimen (and by the way it belongs with the “ macrophylline” 
condition), as recorded by Tuckerman on the mount is “ K viridescens.” 
Another example from Beaufort, S. C., J. H. Mellichamp, 1868, (the subject 
of our illustration) affords “ K. virescit dein fusca.” From either of these 
specimens and particularly the Beaufort one, no reason is found to separate 
plants received from Prof. H. A. Green, of Tryon, N. C., and Mr. C. C. Plitt, 
of Baltimore, Md. Careful examination of this so-called state of C. symphy- 
carpa and comparison with examples of C. alpicola K are lie a, and C. sub~ 
cariosa leads the writer to a conviction of its specific distinctness. In 
general configuration and habit it is much nearer C. subcariosa than C- 
alpicola Karelica , but it may be easily distinguished from the former by a 
difference in reaction and of the cortical characters, and from the latter by 
dissimilarity in stature and the dimensions of the thalline squamules. The 
following is a description of the plant, for which the new name is proposed; 
Cladonia polycarpia n. sp. 
Thallus persistent, of contiguous or dispersed medium or large ( -15mm.) 
rounded irregular or oblong greenish-glaucescent squamules, the margins 
incised-lobulate or crenateor irregularly sinuous; podetia -25mm. in height, 
aggregated or solitory, erect or decurved, the younger conditions club-shaped 
subcylindrical and terminated by a single apothecia, older states cylindrical 
or compressed, with abrupt dilated short-divided summits, an apothecia soli- 
tary on each branchlet, or when the divisions are not apparent the apothecia 
confluent, the podetia laterally entire or fissured, cortex sub-continuous or 
areolate, the areola contiguous or discrete or more or less confusedly rugu- 
lose, esorediate but rarely and sparsely sub-squamulose, opaque, greenish- 
glaucescent; apothecia yellowish-flesh-colored, rufescent, fuscous or dark 
brown. KHO — 
Taken in connection with the description of C. subcariosa given by Dr. 
Fink in Bryologist IX, No. 4, the definitions herein given of C. alpicola 
Karelica and C. polycarpia will furnish a satisfactory guide to any enquirer 
into the C. symphycarpa muddle. With regard to C\ alpicola Karelica'Wa.m^ 
in point of place in our flora nothing definite can be stated. It is cited in 
many local lists under its synonym of C. symphycarpa Fr. but it is mani- 
festly impossible to ascertain whether the short, or the “ macrophylline ” state 
of Tuckerman's diagnosis is understood. In the writer’s opinion the plant 
mentioned in Dr. Fink’s paper, Bryologist IX, No. 2, under the name of 
C. cariosa corticata Wain, collected in Knox Co., Maine, belongs with the 
species. It is well comparable with the description, the reaction is unlike 
that of C. cariosa being KHO — , while in stature and habit it strongly resem- 
bles No. 1485 of Arnold’s leones, likewise KHO — , according to that author. 
The writer is also in receipt of a similar plant from Central Village, Conn. 
Collected by J. L. Sheldon, that is similarly referred. 
Rockland, Maine. 
