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allits glossy beauty. It was only in this last year (1879), after very diligent 
research, that I succeeded in obtaining good fruiting specimens of this 
plant. 
P.S.— Specimens of all the Plants described in this Paper have been 
forwarded with it to the Manager of the New Zealand Institute, for the Her- 
barium of the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 
Art. LV.— Contribution to the Lichenographia of New Zealand. 
By CnmanrEs Knicut, F.L.S. 
Plates XII. and XIII. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21st February, 1880.] 
1. Sticta amphisticta, Kn. 
Thallus pallido-ochro-fuscescens aut passim hepatico-fuscescens ambi- 
tum versus sspe fuscus mediocris levis parum rigescens, supra punctis 
albis sparsis pseudo-cyphelloideis minutis conspersus, laciniato-divisus, 
laciniis subcaniculatis varie lobatis v. grosse sinuato-crenatis, apice dicho- 
tomis v. obtusis; subtus ochro-fuseus aut pallido-fuscescens medio fusco- 
tomentosus ; cyphelle urceolatz pallide, margine ssepe prominulo; cepha- 
lodia sonia minuta parca. Apothecia sparsa badio-rufa, margine tenui 
crenulato pallido aliquando integro. Spore incolores v. dilute luteole 
oblongo-fusiformes v. oblongæ, 1-3-septate, longit. -026, crassit. -007 mm. 
Ad cortices. 
2. Sticta episticta, Nyl 
Thallus ochroleucus v. pallido-ochraceo-fuscescens mediocris vix nitidius- 
culus, supra punctis albis pseudo-cyphelloideis minutis sparsis conspersus, - 
laciniatus, laciniis varie lobato-divisis subcaniculatis ambitu minute cre- 
natis passim ibi laciniatulo-dissectis v. fere isidiosis; subtus ochraceus 
.puberulus subnudus medio fusco-tomentosus, cyphellis parvis urceolatis 
perpaucis v. nullis pallidis, cephalodiis concoloris minutis parcis. Apo- 
thecia rara v. rarissima badio-rufa margine thallino crenulato v. leviter 
denticulato-inequali cincta. Spore incolores v. dilute luteole oblongo- 
fusiformes v. oblonge, 1—8-septate, longit. *08, crassit. 007 mm. 
Ad cortices 
8. Pannaria atrofumosa, Kn. 
Thallus tds cios v. atro-fumosus squamulosus diffracto-areo- 
latus, squamulis minutis concavis crenato-orbiculatis ambitu minutissime 
granulosis v. p hypothallo atro late marginatus. SETE innata 
