Additions to and Comments Upon the Lichen Flora of the Santa Cruz Peninsula, California
1942; University of Notre Dame; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2420904
ISSN1938-4238
Autores Tópico(s)Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
ResumoIn 1908, after eight years of field and laboratory work, I wrote my Lichen Flora of the Santa Cruz Peninsula, California, which was published in 1910. During the intervening years I have spent most of my time in far distant regions. In recent years it has been possible to collect or study lichens only at brief and infrequent intervals, yet casual collecting has shown that our knowledge of the lichens of the Santa Cruz Peninsula is by no means complete. My Lichen Flora contained 321 species and subspecies or varieties worthy of description or special mention. Sixteen additional species were described in the Supplement, making a total of 337. Since that time two new species were described by Fink, ex Hedrick, and various others collected lichens and published on them. The list here given includes all except certain Cladonias which I do not recognize, and also my own recent additions. This adds 36 more, making a total to date of 373. We may be confident that further collections will increase this number materially, at least to 400. The Santa Cruz Peninsula has such variations in rainfall, sunshine, fog, temperature, and substratum that it is divided into several marked life zones. It therefore affords a habitat to lichens characteristic of cold or alpine regions, and in its frostless belt to those from warmer regions. Accordingly it contains a curious assemblage of lichens, with some extraordinary and unexpected omissions from its lichen flora.
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