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430 105.Sticta. 4. CENOTHALAME^. PLcell.aph.
1 Sticta crocata. Saffron dot^moss.
Thalliis pale red brownish, slightly hollowed, large, underneath
downy; soredite minute, lemon yellow; jags torn,
lobed; edges powdery, yellow; apothecia scattered, centre
brown black ; thalloid border not in the least cut.
Lichen crocatus, Lin. Mant. 310 ; Engl. Bot. 2110.
Pulmonaria aurigera, Bory Voy. S.
Sticta crocata, Achar. Meth. 217 ; Licit. 447.
On rocks, and the trunks of trees.
2. Sticta aurata. Gilt dot-moss.
Thallus green shining, very broad, underneath downy
soredise very small, yellow; jags rounded, sinuated, cut;
edges waved, crisp, bent in, yellow, powdery.
Lichenoides lacunosuin rntilum, marginibus flavis, Dillen Muse. 549.
Platisma crocatum, Hoffm, Lich, 2, 52.
Sticta aurata, Jchar. Melh. 277 ,• Lich. 448.
On trees ?
3. Sticta pulmonacea. Lung dot-moss.
Thallus fallow, olive, netlike hollowed ; underneath villous
; papulae naked pale ; jags sinuated, lobed, bluntly
truncated ; apothecia nearly marginal ; centre flattish, red
thalloid harder slightly wrinkled.
Liclienoides peltatum arboreum maximum, Raii Syn. 76,86,
Muscus pulmonarius, sive Lichen arbornm, Park. 1311, desc.
Lichen sive hepatica vulgaris. Park. 1315, fig.
Hepatica terrestris, Ger. em. 1566,
Lichen pulmonarius, Lin. S. P. 1612; Engl. Bot. 572.
Lobaria pulmonaria, Hoff. Germ. 146.
Parmelia pulmonacea, Achar. Meth. Lich. 220.
Sticta pulmonacea, Achar, Lich. Univ. 449,
Lung-Kort.
On the trunks of trees, especially on oaks.
Thallus astringent, used in infusion to cure wounds and
ulcers, and esteemed a specific in spitting of blood and
consumption ; as a native plant it was despised by the regular
facult}^, and the cetraria Islandica, as long as it was
esteemed a foreigner, usurped its place; but that being
now found to be a native, has fallen into the like disrepute.
4. Sticta scrobiculata. Pitted dot-moss.
Thallus nearly orbicular, lead grey, very broad^ smooth,
pitted, underneath ash-colour, woolly, with white naked
spots ; jags rounded, lobed, irregular, and very slightly
cut ; apothecia scattered, centre rather flat, reddish ; thalloid
border slightly crenate.