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ptibesce7is, and Lophozia Hatscheri (Evans) St., while the beach along the 
Visp above the town, offered Lophozia badensis (Gottsche) Schiffn. in 
neat little tufts. 
Along the path from the Riffelalp to Findelen glacier was the usual 
alpine limestone mixture, Lophozia lycopodioides, Cephalozia pleniceps ^ 
Blepharostome, Pellia Fabroniana, Preissia, Lophozia Miielleri, L. incisa 
(Schrad.) Dum. on old stumps. Over on the moraine in front of the glacier 
was Finibriaria fragrans Nees. 
Chamonix was the nearest like the White Mts., as it is siliceous ground, 
and here (as all through Switzerland) Bernet’s Catalogue was quite invalu- 
able. Our first walk, up the Brevent path, produced Diplophylleia obtiisi- 
folia Trevis. , Marsupella Fu7ickii (W. & M.) Dum. and Nardia hyalma 
(Lyell.) Carr. The path up to the Mer de Glace via the Mauvais Pas and 
back via Montanvert, yielded Ju7iger7)ia7i7iia spaerocarpa Hook. Lophozia 
aipestris {^chlexch.) Evans. Lophozia Floerkii (W . & M.) Schiffn., Alicularia 
Geoscypha De Not, Marsupella Fimckii, besides many commoner species. 
On the roof of Amiens Cathedral was a large crop of Barbuloe, in fine 
fruit, and the writer’s last collection was of Lu7iularia crucial a (L.) Dum. 
around a spring in the garden of friends at Halstead, England. 
In Paris the writer passed a most delightful afternoon at the home of 
M. Renauld, who has recently died. In London she had most agreeable 
interviews with Mr. Gepp at the British Museum, Dr. Dixon, Mr. Wright at 
Kew, and Dr. Braithwaite, and these form some of the pleasantest memor- 
ies of the trip. Hartford, Conn. 
LICHEN NOTES No. 15. 
Remarks on Some Cladonia Species. 
G. K Merrill. 
Dr. J. Miiller in the Regensburg Flora, 1878, p. 482 is inclined to believe 
that Helopodium capitatu7n Michaux Flor. Amer. Bor. II p. 329 is synony- 
mous with Clado7iia leptophylla {Lch.) Flk. As it is not definitely settled if 
it be Cl. leptophylla or only something that resembles it, that Wainio and 
others have recognized in the material sent them from this country, one 
wonders if the plant of Michaux may not as well be referred to Cl. 7nitrula 
Tuck ■ Floerke in his Monograph and Nylander in Synopsis seem disposed 
to regard the form as associable with the Cocciferae, presumably because of 
Michaux’s indication that the apothecia were “ rubiginosa-rufis,” but 
Acharius referred the plant to that section which includes Cl. botrytes and 
Cl. leptophy I la, ho\h of which have light colored fruit, and seems not to have 
questioned Michaux’s assignment of it to Helopodia. It is very probable that 
Acharius had no knowledge of Helopodiu77t capitatu77i^eviwQdi from an exam- 
ination, prior to his work on Muhlenberg’s collections. Indeed the evidence 
of his ever having seen the form is negative. Coemans (Clad. Achariana) 
states that no specimen of H. capitatu77i is to be found in the Acharian 
herbarium, and adds that the plant must be regarded as problematical. 
