178 NEW LICHENS. 
refertis; apotheciis marginalibus, demum convexis, disco 
atro-rufo, margine crenulato, extus angulato-mamil- 
- . latis. 
Has. Ceylon; Hook. herb.— Patches 2-3 feet wide, consist- 
ing of imbricated thalli; colour unaltered by. moisture. 
This species is laciniated as Sticta damecornis, Ach, ; but 
_ the white contents of the cyphelle and mamillated backs 
of the apothecia are sufficiently distinctive. 
4. S. propaginea, Tayl. ; thallo oblongo, depresso, lævigato, 
albido-cinereo, madore virescenti, subtus concolori, lobis 
periphericis sinuato-incisis, sinubus circularibus, margine 
elevatis; gemmis concoloribus, marginalibus, granulatis, 
statim elongatis, linearibus, ramosis; cyphellis minutis, 
albidis ;. apotheciis minutis, incarnatis, demum convexis 
atque marginem thallodem tenuem crenulatum excluden- 
_ tibus. 
Has. Surinam ; : “Hook, et. —Thallus 2-3 inches long, in 
_ the central and entire parts concave or channelled, in the 
exterior extremely subdivided. The minute flesh-coloured 
| apothecia are very remarkable. It has some resemblance 
to S. filicina, Ach., but is by no means substipitate. - 
5. S. nitida, Tayl.; thallo stellato, fulvo-cinereo, levigato, 
marginem. versus dichotomo, lobis linearibus, concavis, 
apice bifidis, margine integerrimis, nigrescentibus, subtus - 
atro-glauco, lanuginoso; sorediis minutis, sparsis, flavo- 
_albicantibus ; 3 apotheciis sessilibus, concavis, extus. villosis, 
ra surface. dark ‘dun-coloured. | Young ap 
pue ss. vile giobnles, on. ‘the surface. dris. 
pale yellow soredia on the inferior side of h thallus, 
