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CUMMINGS 
1262); Virgin Bay (Trelease, 1247, 1260); Sturgeon River Bay, 
Kadiak Island (Trelease, 1240); Akun Island (Townsend, no num¬ 
ber) ; Attu Island (Townsend, 73) ; Atka Island (Townsend, 90) ; 
Hall Island (Trelease, 1252 in part); Pastoliak River (Newhall) ; 
Seward Peninsula (Collier). Nylander records C. sylvatica (Holfm.) 
as occurring at Port Clarence, and C. rangiferina sylvatica on St. 
Lawrence Island. Under the synonym C. ra?igiferina var. sylvatica , 
Macoun records its occurrence on St. George Island, Rothrock cred¬ 
its it to ‘ all Russian America,’ while Dr. Cooley collected it at Sal¬ 
mon and Sheep Creeks, near Juneau. 
All the specimens are sterile. Associated with this species are 
mosses and various other lichens growing in inextricable confusion. 
61. Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Web. 
Lichen rangiferinus Linnaeus, Spec. PI. 2 : 1153. pr. p. 1753. 
Cladonia rangiferina (L.) Webber in Wiggers, Prim. FI. Hols. 90. n. 994, pr. 
p. 1780.— Sowerby, Eng. Bot. t. 2249. 
Alaska (Evans, 389) ; Wrangell (Coville and Kearney, 406) ; White 
Pass (Trelease, 1264) ; Orca (Trelease, 1263) ; Hall Island (Coville and 
Kearney, 2063 in part) ; St. Lawrence Island (Trelease, 123S in part) ; 
Fort Cosmos (Huff, c) ; St. Michael (Setchell) ; Cape Nome (Set- 
chell). Reported by Nylander from Port Clarence and from St. Law¬ 
rence Island; by Macoun as common on St. Paul and St. George 
Islands ; by Dr. Cooley from Salmon Creek and Sheep Creek, near 
Juneau ; by Rothrock from ‘ all Russian America ’; collected also on 
St. Paul Island by William Palmer and determined by W. W. Calkins. 
Under the synonym Cenomyce ra?igiferina Hooker and Arnott report 
its occurrence at Kotzebue Sound. 
Some of the specimens are mixed with other species of Cladonia , 
Thatnnolia , and Cetraria. The specimens vary greatly, some being 
very delicate and finely branched, while others are coarse and not so 
profusely branched. 
62. Cladonia furcata racemosa (Hoffm.) Floerk. 
Cladonia racemosa Hoffmann, Deutschl. FI. 2: 144. 1795. 
Cladonia furcata racemosa Floerke, Clad. Comm. 152. 1828. 
Alaska (Evans, 195). Also collected by Macoun on St. Paul 
Island and St. George Island. 
63. Cladonia furcata palamaea (Ach.) Nyl. 
Bceomyces spinosush. palamceus Acharius, Meth. Lich. 359. 1803. 
Cladonia furcata palajna'a Nylander, Lich. Scand. 56. 1861.— Dill. Hist. 
Muse. t. 16. f 2j, 27. 
Orca (Trelease, 1261); Sturgeon River Bay, Kadiak Island (Tre- 
