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CUMMINGS 
79. Stereocaulon tomentosum Fr. 
Stereocaulon tomentosum Fries, Sched. Crit. 20. 1826. 
Juneau, 1200-1S00 ft. (Saunders, 1274; Coville and Kearney, 609) ; 
Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay (Trelease, 129S, 1299, 1300, 1301); 
Hidden Glacier Inlet, Yakutat (Trelease, 1294); Disenchantment 
Bay, Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 1296, 1297); Nunatak moraine, Yaku¬ 
tat Bay (Coville and Kearney, 1295); Point Gustavus, Glacier Bay 
(Coville and Kearney, 761) ; Hidden Glacier, Russell Fiord (Coville 
and Kearney, 981) ; Orca (Trelease, 1269) ; Kadiak (Trelease, 1311) ; 
Hall Island (Trelease, 1267); St. Matthew Island (Coville and 
Kearney, 2121); Port Clarence (Trelease, 1266); Postoliak River 
(Newhall). 
Other Alaskan localities are : Port Clarence, as listed by Nylander; 
Kotzebue Sound, recorded by Babington ; while Dr. Cooley collected 
it at Sheep Creek, near Juneau, and at Davidson Glacier. 
So. Stereocaulon tomentosum alpinum (Laur.) Th. Fr. 
Stereocaulon alpinum Laurer in Fries, L. E. 204. 1821. 
Stereocaulon tomentosum alpinum Th. Fries, Lich. Scand. 48. 1871-74. — 
Scheuchz. It. Alp. 2. t. 19. 
Alaska (Evans, 196; Funston, 16; Turner); locality lost (Tre¬ 
lease, 6112); Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay (Trelease, 1307, 1298a); 
summit of White Pass, 3000 ft. (Trelease, 1270) ; Disenchantment 
Bay, Yakutat Bay (Trelease, 1310) ; Kadiak (Trelease, 1279); St. 
Matthew Island (Trelease, 126S). The species was collected on the 
islands in Bering Strait by Wright and reported from St. Lawrence 
Island in Nylander, Lich. Fr. Behr. 
Many of the specimens are beautifully fruited. A widely distributed 
alpine and arctic lichen, and in some of its forms only with difficulty 
separated from S. paschale. 
81. Stereocaulon paschale (L.) Ach. 
Lichenpaschalis Linn.eus, Sp. PI. ed. 2. a: 1621. 1764. 
Stereocaulon paschale Acharius, Meth. Lich. 315. 1803.—Sowerby, Eng. 
Bot. t. 282. 
Hidden Glacier, Russell Fiord (Coville and Kearney) ; Muir Glacier, 
Glacier Bay (Trelease, 1300); Orca (Trelease, 1272); St. Michael 
(Setchell) ; Cape Nome (Setchell). Reported by Hooker and Arnott 
as having been collected at Kotzebue Sound. Dr. Rothrock, in his 
report on Dr. Bean’s collection, writes: “Common and everywhere 
met.” 
Sterile, poorly developed specimens. 
