415 



9. Phaeophila Floridearum 

 Hauck. 



HAUCK, F., Verzeichnis der 

 im Golfe von Triest gesammelten 

 Meeresalgen (Oesterr. bot. Zeitschr., 

 1876, pp. 56,7). HUBER, I., Contri- 

 butions a la connaissance des 

 Chaetophorees epiphytes et endo- 

 phytes (Ann. sc. nat., 7. ser., bot., 

 t. 16, p. 326, pi. XVI). 



This plant has been found 

 several times as an endophyte 

 in different Floridex, for in- 

 stance in Liagora pinnata, 

 Laurencia Poitei, Griffithsia 



Fig. 397. Endoderma viride (Reinke) Lagerheim. 

 a, plant from Chrysyrnenia Agardhii. b, from 

 Champia salicornoides. c, from ChrysymeniaEnte- 

 romorpha. d, from Champia parvula. (a, b, about 

 200:1; c, d, about 150:1.) 



Fig. 396. Phseophila Floridearum Hauck. 

 a, seen from above, b, transverse^ sec- 

 tion. (About 200:1). 



glob if era and Champia 

 parvula. 



Furthermore 1 

 have found this plant 

 growing in the epider- 

 mal layer of Dictyota 

 indica (Fig. 396). The 

 cells reached a length 

 of about 50 ^ and a 

 breadth of about 25 \a. 

 The hairs are about 

 4 (LI thick. The figure 

 shows partly a piece of 

 the plant together with 

 the epidermal cell- 

 layer of the host, partly 

 a transverse section of 

 the Phseophila immer- 

 sed in the epidermal 

 layer of the Dictyota. 



St. Croix: of! Fre- 

 derikssted, Long Point, 

 near Buck Island. 



Geogr. Distrib.: 

 Mediterranean Sea, At- 

 lantic coast of Europe. 



