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Ahti, T., S. Parnmen & P. Mongkolsuk. 2008. Three new species of Cladonia from Thailand. Drei neue Arten von Cladonia in Thailand. Sauteria 15: 15–19. [New: Cladonia homchantarae Ahti & Parnmen sp. nov. (also Indonesia and Cambodia), C. reticaulis Ahti & Parnmen sp. nov. and C. rudis Ahti & Parnmen sp. nov.; color photos on Appendix pp. I–II.] Allen, A. 2008. Lobaria pulmonaria and Teloschistes species in the Channel Islands. British Lichen Society Bulletin 102: 11–16. [Notes on recent collections.] Alstrup, V., M. Grube, J. Motiejūnaitė, A. Nordin & M. Zhurbenko. 2008. Lichenicolous fungi from the Skibotn area, Troms, Norway. Graphis Scripta 20(1): 1–8. [Report of 93 spp. with 11 new to Norway and 1 new to Greenland.] Aptroot, A. 2008. A new Scoliciosporum from Madagascar. Lichenologist 40(2): 119–122. [New: S. arachnoideum sp. nov.] ——— & F. Schumm. 2008. Key to Ramalina species known from Atlantic islands, with two new species from the Azores. Bestimmungsschlussel fur Ramalina Arten von den altantischen Inseln, mit zwei neuen Arten aus den Azoren. Sauteria 15: 21–57. [New: R. azorica sp. nov. and R. wirthii sp. nov. ‘‘... Ramalina subfarinacea is confirmed from the Canary Islands.’’ Key to 53 taxa from Iceland to the South Shetland Islands; black and white photographs are included for each species; color photograph of R. azorica is on Appendix p. II.] ———, L. Sparrius, S. LaGreca & F. Bungartz. 2008. Angiactis, a new crustose lichen genus in the Roccellaceae, with species from Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands and Australia. The Bryologist 111(3): 510–516. [New: Angiactis Aptroot & Sparrius gen. nov., A. bermudensis LaGreca sp. nov. (Bermuda), A. littoralis (Kantvilas) Aptroot & Sparrius comb. nov. (Tasmania and Western Australia), and A. spinicola Aptroot & Sparrius sp. nov. (Galapagos Islands).] Atienza, V. & D. L. Hawksworth. 2008. Lichenothelia renobalesiana sp. nov. (Lichenotheliaceae), for a lichenicolous ascomycete confused with Polycoccum opulentum (Dacampiaceae). Lichenologist 40(2): 87–96. [New: L. renobalesiana D. Hawksw. & V. Atienza sp. nov. on Verrucaria spp. from Spain and Great Britain. ‘‘The true P. opulentum is known only from the original collection on Polyblastia hyperborea from Sweden.] Awasthi, D. D. 2007. A Compendium of the Macrolichens from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra-Dun, India. 580 pp. [Treatment of 122 genera and 874 spp. with keys, synonyms, descriptions and notes; includes a list of 64 taxa reported but apparently now absent from the region. New: Flavocetrariella gen. nov., F. leucostigma (Lev.) comb. nov., F. melaloma (Nyl.) comb. nov., Lasallia freyana sp. et nom. nov., Hypotrachyna pindarensis (D. D. Awasthi & Singh) comb. nov., Hyperphyscia adglutinata var. pyrithocardia (Mull. Arg.) comb. nov., Physconia sikkimensis (Jatta) comb. nov., Pseudocyphellaria argyracea var. aspera (Lauer) comb. nov., P. diplomorpha (Mull Arg.) comb. nov., Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca var. australis (Poelt) comb. nov. and R. malanophthalma var. obscura (J. Steiner) comb. nov.] Baruffo, L., M. Piccotto & M. Tretiach. 2008. Intrathalline variation of chlorophyll a fluorescence emission in the epiphytic lichen Flavoparmelia caperata. The Bryologist 111(3): 455–462. [Study in Italy. ‘‘... all parameters were statistically higher in the marginal spots than in the central ones, suggesting that the level of photochemical activity is higher where the photobiont cells are more dense and younger.’’ Authors suggest that measuring spots for biomonitoring should be specifically selected.] Bennett, J. P. 2008. Discrimination of lichen genera and species using element concentrations. Lichenologist 40(2): 135–151. [Study of 16 element concentrations in 6 macrolichen species over 23 years in the Great Lakes region. * The cumulative database for this series is available in searchable form on the World Wide Web at http://www.nhm.uio.no/botanisk/bot-mus/ lav/sok_rll.htm. I owe special thanks to Bill Buck for providing copies of papers by other authors, which were otherwise unavailable to me, and to the cooperating authors who send reprints or electronic versions of their works to me for inclusion in this series.