STICTA] STICTACER 109 
Easily recognized by the thinner lighter-coloured thallus and 
fimbriate margins, though occasionally it is darker, with the margin 
more entire. 
Hab. On mossy rocks and trees.—Distr. Rather rare in S.W. 
England, N. Wales, W. Highlands of Scotland and S.W. Ireland.— 
B. M.—Pentire, Penzance, near the Lizard and Liskeard, Cornwall ; 
near Totnes, Lidford and Torquay, Devon; Ty Gwyn, Dolgelly, 
Merioneth ; Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire; Barcaldine, Argyll ; 
Askew Wood and Hyde’s Cottage, Killarney, Kerry. 
4. §. limbata Ach. Meth. Lich. p. 280 (1803).—Thallus 
moderate in size, monophyllous, but deeply lobate, smooth or 
slightly pitted, somewhat shining, dull-glaucous or pale-brown, 
the lobes broad and rounded, sprinkled with soralia towards the 
periphery, the margins densely sorediate ; beneath pale-brownish- 
tomentose, dotted with lighter coloured cyphelle. | Apothecia 
unknown.—S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 431; Hook. FI. Scot. ii. 
p- 59 & in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 206; Tayl. in Mackay FI. Hib. ii. 
p- 152; Mudd Man. p. 88. Lichenoides fuliginosum et pul- 
verulentum, scutellis rubiginosis Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 198, t. 26, 
fig. 100 B, c. Lichen limbatus Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1104 (1802). 
Stictina limbata Nyl. Syn. Lich. i. p. 346 (1860); Leight. Lich. 
Fl. p. 115; ed. 3, p. 108 ; Cromb. Monogr. i. p. 268. S. fuliginosa 
subsp. limbata Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 30 (1870). 
Easicc. Cromb, n. 35; Larb. Cesar. n. 15; Johns. n. 190. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the sorediate thallus and the 
absence of isidia. The soredia are greyish or dull bluish-grey. 
Buellia Parmeliarum Oliv. is frequently found on the thallus. 
Hab. On mossy trunks of trees and on shady rocks among mosses. 
—Distr. General and fairly common especially in the western counties 
of Great Britain and Ireland, rare in the Channel Islands.—B. M. 
Rozel, Jersey ; Jerbourg, Guernsey ; Bocconoc, Withiel, near the Tavy 
and near Penzance, Cornwall ; Shaugh, Torquay, Okehampton, Dart- 
moor, Clovelly, Kestor near the Teign and near Exeter, Devon; near 
Ryde, I. of Wight; Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants; Ardingly and 
Tilgate, Sussex; Lydd, Kent; Malvern, Worcestershire ; near Pem- 
broke ; Hafod, Cardiganshire ; Hay Coppice, Herefordshire; Dolgelly 
and Barmouth, Merioneth; Bettws-y-Coed; Capel Curig and near 
Bangor, Carnarvonshire ; Anglesea; near Stavely, Kendal, Westmore- 
land; Thornthwaite, Cumberland; Teesdale, Durham; The Cheviots, 
Northumberland; New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; Beld Craig, 
Moffat, Dumfriesshire ; Falls of the Clyde, Lanarkshire; Turfin Hill, 
near Edinburgh; Inverary, Barcaldine and Appin, Argyll; Loch 
Katrine, Pass of Leny and Glen Lochay, Killin, Perthshire; Clova, 
Forfarshire; Craig Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; Glen Nevis, 
Invernessshire ; I. of Skye; Aghada, Cork Harbour and Castlebernard 
Park, Bandon, Cork; Cromaglown, Killarney, and Old Dromore, 
Kerry; near Belfast, Antrim. 
Thallus with pseudocyphelle on the under surface. 
5. §.intricata Del. var. Thouarsii Mudd Man. p. 90 (1861).— 
Thallus coriaceous, spreading, sinuate and shortly lobed, somewhat 
