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latius diviso et psendocyphelUs deternunate citrinis, atqne thallus 

 faciem habet S^iclinne luiescfntisT s^yhvel Gaudichaudii DeL 

 3. Sticta suhvari4ibili.s NyK — Similis (quoad tbal- 



lum) Stictae vwriabiU, sed pse,udocypheHi8albis locum tenensprope 

 Siictam puncMatam, CoBiparanda cum Sticta rmiUifida Lanr., 

 at gomdia-^ametri.0,0Q7-rr0,0l6=miilim, •— ; Sterilis in Nova Ze- 

 landia lect^ a Domino Cb^Knight,- 



A' SCida homoeopl^lla Njl. r- Siibilis Stictae damaecorni (vel 

 aliis quibusdam ejusdem^ci^ei qu9ad^thallnm), sed ps^udocyphel- 

 lis albis. Thallus flavidus .vel flavido-pallescens firmiu^alus (pla- 

 gas 20 centimetra et amplius lata formans , laciniis latiL 5-— 8 



millim.); apothecia rufa marginalia. (latit. 2—5 millim.), margine 

 thallino subdenticulato-crenaJP' cincta ; sporae incolores vel dilute 

 fosceneentes 1— 3-septatae , loogit. 0,024—32 millim., crassit. 

 a>066^'millim. — Ad corticesr.- in Nova Zelandia (Knight). — 

 ^tt\ Stictam pum;t'klata(i^,.^\&T^ntni3L^ Pagina infera thalli.fusca 

 *Vel versus apices laeiniarun;^ o^hr;iU^eo-pallesceBS, Thizinis sub- 

 concoloribus vUlosuius; cieph(|jiodia..hjpogenaad^^^ insignia ma- 

 gna subglobosa (diara. OJ«rra,at milli^*), qnae -not^ j^m .^la ad 

 banc speciem distinguendam sufficit. Observetur simul, cepha- 

 lodia (ante me nee definita nee anatomice cognita) vix nisi in 

 Lichenibus gonidicis occurrere, uon autera in gonimicis *). 



5. Lecidea suhteneirosa Nyl. — Thallus d)scure 

 griseus vel cinereo-fuscQscens subrugosus diffractus vel subareo- 

 lato-granulatus determinatus; apothecia nigra vel ru|)enti-algra 

 mediocria (latit. circiter 1 millim, vel minora) planiuscula innata, 

 margine tenui vel demum nullo visibili; sporae 8nae incolores 



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1) Notetiir hie, yRicasoliam Jtontagnei" in NyL Lic^.Ni ZtiaL (Linn. 

 Soc, Joam. IX) p. 248 jongendam esse cum R. adMCHpt&\ specie ^stincta a 

 JT. Aefdacea; optimam nolam H. adscTiptae i^^tunt spennogfonia infra (jii- 

 gina infera thalli) semiglobose prominiila, offtldlo ffapra punctifonoi ftisco (eed 

 prominentia supra nulla). Definitio Ricasoiiae 3iontagnei (BabO ®st haec: 

 fhatlus glaucns vel ^aslm glanco-tuffesiena' letter c^i^rogattts vd ob^i^e scro- 

 Mcalato-tnaequalirf aut sublaevis (latif. 12^24 ceaUi^.y I^mriter iDemt)ranaieus 

 (crassit 0,10-rO,12 millim.), lobis a^nafels (raai^e interdum sqaaitiulftii ge- 

 rentibus), snbtus fusco-nigricans versusque ambituip pallidus, nudiusculus vel 

 versus ambitum leviter arachnoideo-tomentellus ; apothecia nigra (latit. 2 — 6 

 millim.) sparsa, saepe conferta, margine r^ceptaculari inflexo (saepe laciniato- 

 coronato); sporae fuscae breviter fusfformes 2-loculares vel 1-septafcae (physcio- 

 morphae), longit. 0,024—31 millim. — Thalluri hy^ochloriee ceScico rosea tin- 

 gitur. Ps«idocyphellae incertae mlnuta* subclaustie. C^halodia pyrenodea 

 parca. Spermogonia prominentiis thallinis param prominulis pagina supera 

 (nee infra). 



