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Cystocarps solitary or mostly 3-5 aggregated, ovate or globular, 

 sessile, borne on ramelli or ramuli. Color reddish purple, fad- 

 ing to yellowish or brick red. Substance membranoceous and soft 

 cartilaginous, very brittle when recent ; plant imperfectly adheres 

 to paper in drying. 



Hab. : growing over rocks, stones, gravels or corallines 

 below low tide. Common along the Pacific coast from Ryukyu to 

 Prov. Boshyu. Kuyonpo (Chosen). 



On referring the present plant to this species, I was not 

 able to see any reliable specimens but an illustration given in 

 Kuetz. /. c. and references cited above. 



PL. CLIX, fig. 6-9, Fig. 6 : portion of sterile branch protruded from 

 entangled mass of Hypnea cervicornis J. Ag., \. Fig. 7 : portion of cross- 

 section of frond, 2^5. Fjg. 8 : disc-like attachments at basal intricated 

 portion of frond, \. Fig. 9 : discs enlarged 22. 



PL. CLX, fig. 1-5. Fig. 1 : tetrasporic ramuli, 3J>. Fig. 2; tetrasporic 

 sori magd., 2J. Fig. 3: cystocarpic branch, a -5. Fig. 4-5 ; cystocarps, *s. 



Hypiiea' cervicornis J. Ag. 



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