268 LICHENACEL, [SrIcrINa. 
Merionethshire ; Bettws-y-Coed and Trefriw, Denbighshire; near Bangor, 
Carnarvonshire; Island of Anglesea ; Ambleside and near Rydal, West- 
moreland ; Keswick and Ennerdale, Cumberland. New Galloway, Kirk- 
cudbrightshire; Falls of Clyde, Lanarkshire; Inverary, Appin, and head 
of Loch Awe, Argyleshire; Leny Falls near Callander, Glen Lochay, and 
Glen Lyon, Perthshire; Craig Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; Apple- 
cross, Ross-shire. Killarney, co. Kerry; near Kylemore, co. Galway. 
4. §. limbata Nyl. Syn. i. (1860) p. 346.—Thallus moderate 
or small, monophyllous, scarcely rigid, smooth or very slightly 
scrobiculato-unequal, somewhat or but little shining, roundly lobed, 
glaucous-lurid or pale cervine-brown; beneath pale, more or less 
tomentose with whitish cyphelle ; lobes broad and rounded, sprinkled 
on the surface with scattered cwsio-greyish soredia, and densely 
similarly sorediate towards the margins. Apothecia unknown.— 
Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 115, ed. 3, p. 108.-—Stectina fuliginosa subsp. 
limbata Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 30. Sticta limbata Gray, Nat. Arr. i. 
p. 431; Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 59; Sm. Eng. Fl. v. p. 206; Tayl. in 
Mack. Fl. Hib. ii. p. 152 ; Mudd, Man. p. 88. Lichen imbatus Sm. in 
Eng. Bot. xvi. (1803) t. 1104. Lichenoides fuliginosum et pulveru- 
lentum, scutellis rubiginosis Dill. Muse. t. 26. f. 100 B, c.— Brit. 
Exs.: Larb, Cesar. n. 15; Cromb. n. 35. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the paler thallus, the absence of 
isidia, and the presence of greyish or sordidly cesious soredia. The 
thallus is usually small, and is either strictly monophyllous or sublobate 
at the circumference. The fructification is not known; the parasite 
Abrothallus Welwiteschii, sometimes found on the thallus, might be 
mistaken for apothecia. 
Hab. On the mossy trunks of trees, and on shady rocks among mosses 
in wooded upland regions.—Dist7. General and not uncommon, though 
chiefly in the Western portions of Great Britain and Ireland; rare in the 
Channel Islands.—B. M.: Rozel, Island of Jersey ; Jerbourg, Island of 
Guernsey. Near Ryde, Isle of Wight; Lydd, Kent; Lyndhurst, New 
Forest, Hants; Shaugh, Ilsham Walk, Torquay, Dartmoor, and near 
Exeter, Devonshire ; Boconnoc, Withiel, near the Tavy, and near Pen- 
zance, Cornwall; Hay Coppice, Herefordshire; Malvern, Worcestershire ; 
Hafod, Cardiganshire; Dolgelly and Barmouth, Merionethshire ; Bettws- 
y-Coed, Denbighshire ; Capel Curig and near Bangor, Carnarvonshire ; 
Island of Anglesea; near Stavely, Kendal, Westmoreland; Teesdale, 
Durham; The Cheviots, Northumberland ; Thornthwaite, Cumberland. 
New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Beld Craig, Moffat, Dumfriesshire ; 
Falls of the Clyde, Lanarkshire; Turfin Hill, near Edinburgh; Inverary 
and Appin, Argyleshire; Loch Katrine, Pass of Leny, and Glen 
Lochay, Killin, Perthshire ; Clova, Forfarshire ; Craig Cluny, Braemar, 
Aberdeenshire ; Glen Nevis, Inverness-shire ; Island of Skye. Near Bel- 
fast, co. Antrim; Aghada, Cork Harbour, and Castlebernard Park, Ban- 
don, co. Cork ; Cromaglown, Killarney, and Old Dromore, co. Kerry. 
5. 8. sylvatica Nyl. Syn. i. (1860) p. 348.—Thallus large, 
rather rigid, subopaque, scrobiculato-unequal, laciniato-lobed, cer- 
vine or greyish-brown; beneath tomentose, brown or brownish, 
paler at the circumference, with pale cyphellw; lobes variously 
divided, rounded, crenulate, above slightly furfuraceous, the divisions 
