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“I see from Lorentz Moss-Stud, that this is the original plant. I found 
none at Kew. ” 
We have not seen the original specimens. 
New York Botanical Garden, New York City. 
SOME EXTENSIONS OF RANGES 
Lincoln W. Riddle 
The following extensions of ranges seem of sufficient interest to be put on record : 
1. Dirina repanda (Fr.) Nyl. This is a lichen of calcareous rocks, always 
growing within the influence of the ocean winds. The center of distribution 
is around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, but it extends northward in 
Europe to a few stations on the coast of England. There is a specimen in the 
Tuckerman Herbarium from the Hawaiian Islands, but the species has not 
hitherto been known from America. Recently, however, I have received speci- 
mens from the following stations in the Bahama Islands: Vicinity of Nassau, 
New Providence Island, collected by A. E. Wight, Jan. 9, 1905; Haynes Road, 
Great Exuma Island, collected by N. L. Britton and C. F. Millspaugh, Feb. 
22-28, 1905, no. 3033; Cunningham Hill, Long Cay Island, collected by L. J. K. 
Brace, Dec. 7-17, 1905, no. 41 4Q. 
2. Lecidea cinnab arina Sommerf. ( Biatora Fr.) This is a boreal species. 
In the western part of North America it has been known as far south as the 
mountains of Washington and Oregon. It has never been recorded from Cali- 
fornia, but in April, 1917, Professors Margaret C. Ferguson and Mabel A. Stone 
found it growing on the twigs of a Live Oak on the outskirts of the campus of 
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. 
3. Cetraria Fendleri Tuck: This species was based on material col- 
lected by Fendler in New Mexico. It is known from a number of localities 
in the coastal plain region of the Gulf States and up the Atlantic Coast as far 
as southeastern Massachusetts, where it was recorded by Willey from Nan- 
tucket, Martha’s Vineyard, New Bedford, and Weymouth. It also extends 
up the Connecticut River Valley as far as Amherst, where it was collected by 
Tuckerman. I have found it at two stations considerably farther to the north- 
east: Pepperell, August, 1909 (only a few miles from the New Hampshire line); 
Ipswich sand-dunes, Nov. 21, 1910. In both of these cases, the plants were 
growing on the branches of Pinus rigida, and it is probable that the Cetraria 
may be expected to turn up as far north as York County, Maine. 
4. Physcia leucomela (L.) Michx. The northernmost stations known 
for this tropical lichen are at Penn Yan, in the region of Seneca Lake, and Jor- 
danville, in the Mohawk Valley, New York. In New England it has been found 
in southern Connecticut, and a single specimen is recorded from the New Bed- 
ford region, by Willey. In August, 1908, while collecting in the famous bog 
at Monkton, in the Champlain Valley of Vermont, where the tropical Usnea 
angulata has long been known to grow, I was fortunate enough to find good 
specimens of Physcia leucomela, growing with the Usnea. 
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. 
