And so, send me a listing of your magazines, whether or not you would loan them or give them, and I will try to draw up a master list if there seems to be enough interest. I would like to note that you might want to include any professional magazines you might get for some may possibly be interested even in these. On May 22nd, MMA had a meeting of 18 members at the State Police Barracks in Gray, and the guest lecturer was Sheldon Cushing, whose subject was lichens. The following report is a very brief synopsis of Sheldon's talk. However, lichens are ubiquitous and world wide, there are over 13,500 species.
Lichens are a symbiotic composite of algal cells intertwined with fungal hyphae.
The hyphae of the fungus provides moisture and the algal cells containing chlorophyll, provide nutrients. The algal cells must be magnified about 400 times to identify the algae. Lichen reproduction is somewhat confusing because it can take various forms which contain similar elements. Fragmentation is certainly the easiest to comprehend. After that, the lichen may produce spores, but only from the fungal element.