Thanks, Tom.

Incidentally, I got curious about the strange name "usnea" and looked it up.
Usnea is a genus of beard-lichens; the word is Botanical Latin, from Arabic
oshnah, "moss". It's not a name that I would have chosen for Vitta usnea,
but maybe the color pattern reminded Roeding of moss or moss-like lichen.
Spanish "moss", the angiosperm that hangs from trees in regions adjacent to
the Gulf of Mexico, is Dendropogon usneoides.

Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama

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