] 68 CAMPANULAllIIU.E. 



on pedicles, which are more or less annulated at the top 

 and bottom,, patent, and arranged in whorls at regular 

 intervals ; GONOTHECVE flask-shaped, smooth, with a 

 narrow neck, and very shortly stalked. 



THE term " equisetiform" which Ellis has applied to this 

 species, gives an admirable idea of the mode in which the 

 pedicels are disposed on the stem and branches. They 

 form equidistant whorls, and " give the whole very much 

 the appearance of the plant called Horsetail or Equisetum." 

 There are about 5 to each whorl. The calycles are of a 

 thin and delicate texture. C. verticillata sometimes attains 

 a luxuriant growth, and is much and variously branched. 



Hub. In the coralline zone, on shells &c.; common. It 

 is taken up in immense quantities by the trawlers on the 

 south-west coast. 



[Tromso, rare; North Cape, common in 30-50 fath. 

 (Sars) : Henley Harbour, Labrador, in 20 fath. on a pebbly 

 bottom (A. S. Packard, jun.) : coast of La Charente-infe- 

 rieure, Bay of Biscay (Beltremieux).] 



Section c. With branching stems [Laomedea, Lanix.J 



6. C. FLEXUOSA, Hincks. 



LAOMEDEA GELATINOSA, var. a, Johnston, B. Z. 105, pi. xxv. figs. 3, 4 ; Couch, 



Corn. Faun. 39, pi. x. fig. 2. 

 LAOMEDEA FLEXUOSA, Hincks, Devon and Cornw. Cat., Ann. N. H. (3rd ser.) 



viii.260; Attman, Ann. N. H. for May 1864. 



Plate XXXIII. 



STEM filiform, flexuous, simply pinnate or irregularly 

 branched, of a light horn-colour, ringed at the base and 

 above the origins of the branches; HYDROTHEC^E alternate, 

 large,<:up-shaped,ivide above, the sides sloping off somewhat 

 abruptly towards the base, with a plain rim, and borne on 

 rather long, ringed pedicels (0-7 rings or more), which are 

 given oft' at each bend of the stem ; GONOTHECA: (female) 



