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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Tribe IV. LICHIKEM 

 Gen. XXXIII. LICHINA, Ag. 



1. Lichina pygmcea, Ag. } Sp. Alg. v. I. p. 105. Alg. Danmon. Exs, n. 155. 



Var. intermedia, Bab. ; ramis planiusculis tenuioribus, statura minore. (Tab. CXXVIII. C.) 



II ab. On the rocks, Otago, fertile, March, Br. Lyall. 



This appears to be almost identical with the European form. Branches short, densely tufted, firm, flattish, 

 branched and forked, blunt at the tips ; in stature intermediate between L. pygmaa and L. eonfinis (which are per- 

 haps too near one another), but the characters are rather those of the former. Dr. Harvey is disposed to consider 

 this a new species, but I can hardly venture to propose it as such.— Plate CXXVIII. C. Eig. 1, plant, natural 

 size; 2, branch ; 3, vertical section of ditto ; 4, transverse section of ditto ; 5, apothecia ; 6, the same, cut vertically ; 

 7, sporidia; 8, cells of the thallus -.—all highly magnified. 



