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wards. Its lacinise are broad, elongated, sinuate-lobate, im- 

 bricate ; the lobes at their extremities bifid, retuse-truncate. 

 By some it is regarded as a doubtful native. 

 *** Thallus below excavated ly citron-coloured cyjohcllte. 



6. Sticta crocata . (er 0<?^s, saffron). Thallus membra- 

 naceous-coriaceous, — above yellowish-green, reticulate -lacu- 

 nose, besprinkled with bright lemon-coloured soredia, espe- 

 cially towards margins, — below brownish-tomentose; cyphel- 

 lse fiat; lacinise rotundate-lobate, lobes crenate; apothecia 

 scattered, brownish-black. (E. B. 2110.) 



A rare and small but elegant species, growing among 

 moss on trees about Inverary, and in Glenmoriston, on rocks 

 about the Palls of Moness, Aberfeldy ; and in various parts 

 of the Perthshire Highlands, in Scotland ; on basaltic rocks 

 in some parts of Ireland ; and on Dartmoor, Devonshire. 

 It frequently grows with Peltigera sylvatica, but is seldom 

 found fertile. It appears to be somewhat widely distributed 

 over the world, being common, according to Banbury, on 

 Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope ; and occurring also 

 in the Falkland Islands, Tasmania, the Sandwich and West 

 India Islands, the United States, on the Swan River, shores 

 of the Straits of Magellan, and west coast of South America. 



7. Sticta aueata [aurum, gold) differs from the pre- 



