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A. fubata (L. ) Ach. l.c. commonly elongated, pendulous and 
sorediate. 
forma minuscula, commonly abbreviated but pendulous fili- 
form throughout and esorediate. 
var. lanestris Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 593, much reduced, erect 
or prostrate, sparcely sorediate or destitute. 
var. nifidula Th. Fr. Scand. p. 25, short, erect, shining and 
esorediate. 
ALECTORIA CHALYBEIFORMIS (L.) Nyl. Flora 1869 p. 445, 
forma nidulifera (Norrl. ) Merrill comb. nov. A. niduUfera Norrl. Flora 
1875, p. 8. On dead trunks, vicinity of Waynesville, N. C. P. C. 
Standley, No. 5779. Mixed with normal conditions of the species. 
The form has been identified in collections from Montmorency Falls, 
Quebec, J. Macoun ; Hendersonville, N. C., H. A. Green; and 
Knox County, Maine, the writer, 
ALECTORIA LOXENSIS (Fee) Nyl. Syn. p. 278. On trees, base 
of Blue Mountain Peak, Island of Jamaica, Wm. T. Maxon, No. 1449. 
Perfectly characteristic but without apothecia. Specimens from 
Neocria, Mexico, collected by C. G. Pringle have lateral concave 
apothecia with thin elevated entire margins, the spores parenchym- 
atous, brown. 84-105 X 38-45 /a. 
PARMELIA ULOPHYLLA (Ach.) Merrill, Bryologist 11:91. On 
oak trunks near Waynesville, N. C. P. C. Standley. Exactly 
agreeing with the plant from Manitoba House, J. Macoun, on which 
the species was constituted. There is every reason to believe that 
the plant may be found anywhere in our Northern States, but is over- 
looked from its resemblance to P. caperata.. 
PARMEJ.IA CETRATA Ach., Hue emend. Lich. Ex. Eur. p. 173 
P. reticulata Tayl. in greater part; P. perforata oi Nylander’s various 
publications for the most part. Forma ciliosa Olivier Viaud-Grand- 
Marais, Notes sur les Farm, et les Physc. de V Ouest (France) p. 156. 
On trunks, near Waynesville, N. C. P. C. Standley, No. 5784. The 
specimens are both limbate and globose-sorediate, and the margins 
markedly black-ciliate. Not previously recorded for America so far 
as known. The form also occurs in Knox County, Maine. 
P. cetrata forma sorediifera Wainio Etud. Bresil, p. 40 has been 
examined from various localities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Mary- 
land, but in no instance were the specimens corectly identified by 
their distributors. P. cetrata var. corniculata Mull. Arg. Rev. Lich. 
Meyen, p. 312 is detected from Georgesville, Ohio. E. E. Bogue. 
PARMELIA PERFORATA Ach. Method, p. 217. It is now well 
known that Nylander mistakenly conceived the plant at present 
recognized as P. cetrata Ach. to be the P. perforata of Acharius, 
and the error made easily possible the establishment of the very 
distinct and true P. perforata as a species with the name of P. hypo- 
