Cladonia degenerans X 3 
Fink). Wainio’s distribution adds Port Clarance, Greenland, Newfoundland, 
Miquelon, White Mountains, Massachusetts, Virginia and several localities 
in British America. The above distribution indicates that the plant is to be 
looked for throughout the northern portion of the United States and north- 
ward, but still it is not well known. Found in all the grand divisions. 
Dr. Wainio has seen fit to divide the species into four forms, two of which 
he has recognized in material sent him by the writer from Minnesota. Of 
eight of these specimens submitted, Dr. Wainio referred two to the first 
form below, one to the second below and five to the species without attempt- 
ing to refer to a form. Dr. Wainio admits in his Monograph that the four 
forms are scarcely constant or distinct enough to be of any taxonomic value. 
So we can do no better for the present than to record below two forms to 
which our three American forms have been referred by the best authority on 
the Cladonias. Future world-wide study of the species may enable workers 
to understand the species and its varieties. 
