CAMPANTJLAftlA NEGLECTA. 171 



which the stem is only about -J of an inch in height, 

 with two or three calyclcs, while the tendril is fully \ an 

 inch long. 



The capsules, so far as I have seen, are never borne on 

 the stem ; they are somewhat variable in shape. All the 

 specimens that I have hitherto examined are on the Zoster a. 

 The creeping stem runs along the leaf, giving off erect 

 shoots at short intervals, and between them the capsules 

 are ranged ; they commonly spring from the side of the 

 stolon and are therefore recumbent on the surface of the 

 leaf. 



Hub. On Zostcra marina. Ramsay, Isle of Man ; Tor- 

 bay (T. H.) : Jersey (abundant on Zoster a) (A. M. N.) : 

 Youghal (Miss Ball) : North of Ireland (Prof. W. 

 Thomson) . 



8. C. NEGLECTA, Alder. 



LAOMEDEA NEGLECTA, Alder, Northumb. & Durli. C'at. iu Trans. Tynes. F. C. 

 iii. 123, pi. v. figs. 1, 2 ; Hincks, Devon & Cormv. Cat., Ann. 

 N. II. (3rd. ser.) viii. 



Plate XXX. fig. 2. 



ZOOPHYTE delicate and of very humble growth; STEM fili- 

 form, subfleosuose, simply pinnate, annulated (4-7 rings) 

 above the origin of each pedicel, and sometimes slightly 

 ringed below ; HYDROTHEC^E alternate, narrow and deep, 

 borne on ringed pedicels, with about 8 bimucronated 

 denticles round the margin ; GONOTHEC^E pyriform, axil- 

 lary or borne on the pedicels, with a short, ringed stalk, 

 ova matured in an external marsupium ; POLYPITE 

 with 15-16 slender tentacles. 



IN its usual condition this is a very minute species, at- 

 taining a height of about j~j of an inch, very sparingly 

 branched or perfectly simple, each stem bearing a single 



