DR. LINDSAY ON NEW-ZEALAND LICHENS. 555 
The following other British species occur in Otago :— 
Sp. 4. V. PALLIDA, Ach. [.Dermatocarpon, Mudd, Manual, 269.] 
In crevices of mica-slate, Glen Martin, Chain-hills: W. L. L. Has the external 
appearance of Ændocarpon pusillum, Hedw., as a variety of which Fries regarded it (Lich. 
Ref. 411). 
Sp. 5. V. MAURA, Wahl. 
On slaty traps, rocky coast about the Nuggets and Shaw's Bay, coating the rocks 
exposed to the sea-spray (or occasionally covered by the tides) with black oil-like stains, 
precisely as on the eastern coast of Scotland. 
All the Verrucarie recorded in the ‘Flora Nove Zelandie’ are given as North 
Island species, evidently because, when the work in question was issued, equal attention 
had not been given to the collection and examination of the more minute and obscure 
corticolous and saxicolous lichens of the south island. There can be no doubt that, so 
soon as local botanists can give adequate care and time to the collection of these groups 
of the lower lichens, important additions will be made to the number of the New-Zealand 
Verrucarie, including, in all probability, species which are British, or cosmopolite, or 
have otherwise a wide geographical range. Since the publication of Babington's list 
(Lich. N. Z. in Fl. N. Z.), Dr. Knight * has added several Ferrucarie from the province of 
Auckland to the lichen-flora of New Zealand; and similar additions are likely to attend 
the efforts of local collectors in all parts of the colony, if they bestow a similar amount 
of care and time on the subject. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
Prate LX. 
Figs. 1 to 5. Sticta fossulata, Duf., and its varieties. 
l. Otago. Spores: a, younger; b, older. 
2. Wellington. Spores: a, younger; 5, older. e 
8. Var. Richardi, Mont.: Otago. Spores: a, younger; ^, Older i 
2 ee : r : nimm: " 
4. S. impressa, Tayl., pr. p.: Auckland (Antarctic Expedition). Section of hym MT 
physes; b, theca; c, hypothecium ; d, spores. M Bine: 
9. Var. linearis, Tayl. (S. impressa, Tayl., pr. p.) : Auckland (Antarctic xpedi 
a, younger; 5, older; c, in process of germination. T ie e beginning to germinate. 
| Fig. 6. S. physciospora, Nyl.: Otago. Spores: a, younger; 
Figs. 7-10. S. orygmea, Ach. 
L Otago. Spores: a, younger; b, mature; €, older. 
8. Chatliam Islands. Sterigmata and spermatia. 
9. Auckland Islands: a, theca; 5 and c, spores (b s 
10. S. flava, Hook. fil.: Auckland (Antarctic Expedition). 
germinate, 
ung; € mature). i 
‚young; 6; Spores : 6, mature ; b, preparing to 
j un fi Trans. Lian, Soc. vol. xxiii. 
* “On some New-Zealand Ferrucaria"" (mostly corticolous species), with 
P. 99, plate x1, ; 
