VII. LICHENES. 
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Sticta . ] 
cyphellae (powdery or smootli, white or yellow warts or cups). Apolhecia 
superficial, with a thalliue border ; paraphyses separate ; spores fusiform, 
usually 1-3-septate. Spermagouia scattered, scarcely protruding, with 
arthrosterigmata. 
A very large genus, temperate and tropical, not arctic nor alpine, most abundant in New 
Zealand ou the ground and trees. 
§ 1. Stictina, Nylander. — Stratum of granules blue-green or glaucous-green ; granules 
without a cellular membrane. 
a. Cyphellce minute, pulverulent, white. 
1. S. argyracea, Delise ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 281. Thallus reddish 
or pale brown, 3-10 in. broad, smooth, laciniate; laciniae linear, subpinnati- 
fid, fracture white, upper surface with scattered white soredia, beneath 
whitish or yellowish, tomentose. Apothecia small, red-brown, marginal or 
submarginal ; thalline border entire. — S. asp era, Lam. Stictina, Nyland. 
Synops. Lich. 334. 
Northern and Middle Islands, Colenso, etc. (Madagascar, Java, India, S. Africa, 
Polynesia.) 
2. S. fragillima, Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 279, excl. var. /3. Thallus yel- 
lowish or glaucous, thin, rigid, fragile, smooth or rough here and there, frac- 
ture white ; laciniae linear, pinnatifid, dichotomous ; beneath ochraceous, sub- 
costate, tomentose. Apothecia reddish or brown, scattered ; thalline border 
toothed or crenulate. — Stictina, Nyland. Synops. Lich. 337. 
Northern Island, Dieffenbach, etc. (Australia, Tasmania, Peru.) — Nylander excludes 
var. glaberrima, Bab., which has urceolate cyphellae, and may be referable to S. cinnamomea, 
A. Rich, (see remarks at end of genus). 
3. S, Hookeri, Bab. in Ft. N. Z. ii. 282. t. 125 B. Thallus lurid, 
aeneous or glaucous or brownish, 3-4 in. broad, rigid, scarcely shining, scro- 
biculate ; lobes broad, rounded, crenate, with minute furfuraceous tubercles 
on the costae and margin, brownish below or blackish, with pale papilliform 
cyphellae. Apothecia black, scattered; thalline border entire. — Stictina, 
Nyland. Synops. Lich. 336. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, etc., Colenso, etc. 
B. Cyyhellce minute, pulverulent, yellow. 
4. S. crocata, Ach. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 275. Thallus lurid, 
brownish, 3-5 in. broad, opaque or shining, fracture white, broadly lobed ; 
lobes crenate, scrobiculate, sometimes reticulately costate, with orange-yellow 
soredia : beneath brown or black. Apothecia scattered ; thalline border cre- 
nate. — Stictina, Nyland. Synops. Lich. 338. 
Common throughout the Northern and Middle islands. (Cosmopolite in temperate 
and warm damp climates.) 
5. S. carpoloma, Delise ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 276. t. 126. Thallus 
glaucous, yellowish or ashy, 3-5 in. broad, rigid, almost shining; laciniae 
linear, with narrow retuse lobes, often scrobiculate ; fracture white ; beneath 
brown or pale, with small yellow cyphellae. Apothecia black, marginal 
thalline border smooth.— Stictina, Nyland. Synops. Lich. 339. 
