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lichen NOTES NO. 16 
(Containing something of record and comment, and describing one 
new species. ) 
G. K. MERRILL. 
LEG AN ORA ARGOPHOLIS (Wahl.) Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 306. On 
rocks of a bluff, Logan, Mont. Dr. J. F. Brenckle. Sufficiently 
near No. 50 Kryptogamae Exsiccatae, the specimen yet has the 
thicker thallus characteristic of L. frustulosa (Dicks.) Ach. Tucker- 
man included the L. argophoUs of Nyl. Scand. p. 166 in his concep- 
tion of L. frustulosa, and in Koerb.Sy sterna the form is made var. 
a. or equivalent to the species. Ny lander gives the spore dimensions 
of L. argophoUs as 11-18 X 7-9/^ as compared with 10-12 X 6/w-for L. 
frustulosa, and indicates for the species larger apothecia than those of 
the latter. I do not find that any of the authorities described L. ar- 
gophoUs as with an effigurate thallus such as L. frustulosa often pos- 
sesses. Such differences as are here mentioned seem scarcely suf- 
ficient to separate the two forms. 
RAMALINA POLLINARIA Ach. L. U. p. 608. On dead trunks, 
near Waynesville. N. C. Paul C. Standley, No. 5813. This plant is 
the nearest approach to the R. polUnaria of Europe of any yet 
examined from America. The tips of the laciniae show the farinose 
soredia characteristic of the species, but in all other particulars the 
specimen might be passed as R. farinacea. 
RAMALINA CERUCHTS (Ach.) DN. Frammenti lich, p. 45. 
On willows, Kanaka Bay, San Juan Island, Wash., A. S. Foster. 
Provided with apothecia, but no spores were discovered. Interesting 
because of establishing a new northerly limit for the species on the 
West Coast. 
ALECTORIA IMPLEXA (Hoffm.) Nyl. ex Norrl. Med. Soc. 
pro F. et FI. Fenn. I, (1876) p. 14. Reaction KHO + yellow. On 
trees, Gaspe peninsula, Quebec, Skagway, Alaska, and Nova Scotia, 
J. Macoun ; near Spokane, Wash., T. A. Bonser. This is in 
part var. c. implexa Fr. of Tuckerman’s Synopsis, the other com- 
ponents being A.jubata (L.) Ach. Nyl. emend. Cromb. Jour. Bot. 1872, 
p. 233, best represented in this country by the sorediiferous West 
Coast specimens that Acharius distinguished as the var. proUxa, and 
the filiform esorediate condition from Eastern America. This last 
mentioned plant is intermediate between A. fubata (L.) Nyl. and the 
var. lanestris Ach. L. U. p. 593, and like both is without proper re- 
action with KHO. The plant is distinct and deserving of a name, 
and it is proposed to designate it as A. jubata forma minuscula 
forma nov. The examples of A. fubata and its variations known to the 
writer may be arranged as follows : 
