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VII. LICHF.NES. 
[Sticta. 
Var. grannlata. — S. grannlata , Bab. 1. c. 281 
sometimes white. —Stictina, Nyland. 1. c. 340. 
/Phallus thicker, ashy-white ; cypkelim 
Northern and Middle Islands : not uncommon. (Bourbon, Java, Polynesia, Tas- 
mania, Chili, Fuegia.) 
y. Cyphellce urceolate. 
6. S. filicina, Acli. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 276. Thallus pale yellowish, 
smooth, more or less stipitate, incised and lobed ; lobes costate below the 
base or down the middle ; margin sinuous ; beneath pale ochreous, tomentum 
thin or 0. Apothecia reddish or brown, scattered ; thalline border entire or 
crenulate. — Stictina, Nyland. Synops. Licit. 349. 
Var. latifrons. Thallus larger, brownish, stipitate. — S. latifrons, A. Rich, FI. N. Z. 27. 
t. 8. f. 2; Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 277. 
Var. Menziesii. Thallus thick, orbicular, more stipitate, brown or blackish below. — S. 
Menziesii, FI. Antarct. 198. S. latifrons, var. Menziesii, FI. N. Z. ii. 277- t. 122. 
Common throughout the Northern and Middle islands, in alpine and more southern 
localities. Lord Auckland’s group, J. D. H. (S. America, Java, Tasmania.) 
§ 2. Sticta, Nylander. — Stratum of granules green or yellow-green ; granules with a 
cellular membrane, 
a. Cyphella urceolate , white. 
7. S. damaecornis, Acli. Thallus 4-6 in. broad, lurid or pale red- 
brown, more or less shining, smooth ; lacinim linear, pinnatifid, dichotomous ; 
lobes obtuse ; beneath ochraceous or blackish, tomentum often sparse or 0. 
Apothecia red-brown ; thalline border entire or crenulate. — Nvland. Svnops. 
Lich. 357. 
Var . sinuosa. Thallus pale, appressed, more sinuate, pinnatifid, lobes often broader. -- 
S. sinuosa, Pers. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 280. 
Var. macrophytla. Thallus thicker, darker ; lobes broader. 
Common throughout the Northern and Middle islands. (S. America, S. Africa, Java, 
Polynesia, Australia.) 
8. S. variabilis, Acli. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 280. Thallus 3-6 in. 
broad, pale glaucous or brownish, membranous, rather rigid; laciniae sub- 
pinnatifid ; margin sinuate-crenulate, deflected; beneath brown, with pale 
margins, tomentose. Apothecia red-brown, marginal or submarginal ; thal- 
line border crenulate. — Nyland. Synops. Lich. 357. 
Northern and Middle Islands : common. Lord Auckland’s group, ( Montague .) 
(Mauritius, Polynesia, Australia.) 
9. S. cinereo-glauca, Tayl. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 283. t. 127./. C. 
Thallus ashy or glaucous, about 3 in. broad, scarcely shining, lobed ; lobes 
crowded, sinuate, crenate or repand, smooth ; beneath pale, with whitish 
tomentum. Apothecia small, reddish; thalline border obsolete or crenulate. 
- — Nyland. Synops. Lich. 358. 
Northern Islaud, Colenso, etc. 
/8- Cyphellas punctiform, orange-yellow. 
10. S. orygmsea, Acli. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 274. Thallus 3-8 in. 
broad, yellowish or pale livid and glaucous, membranous or rigid, almost 
shining ; fracture bright yellow, unequally closely scrobiculate or reticulately 
costate; lobes rounded, with large unequal crenatures, internally yellow, 
