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Tribe TYLOCARPE.E Schm. 

 Gen. 166. PHYLLOPHORA Grev. 



P. epiphylla Batt. ( Fucus ej>i/>ln/l!us Miill. Fl. Dan. fasc. xi. 

 tab. 708 (March, 1777 ) ; F. prolifer Lightfoot, Fl. Scot. ii. p. 949, 

 tab. 30 (July, 1777)). (Xote. Linnaeus's description of Fucus 

 nibens is in no way applicable to the present species. In his 

 herbarium there are four specimens preserved under the name 

 F. nibens ; three of them, pinned together, belong to the present 

 species, the fourth to Rhodymenia palnutta. It seems to me to be 

 more than probable that Linnaeus gave the name Fucus rubens to 

 Royen's " Fucus caule tereti ramoso, foliis obloiigis undulatis sinu- 

 atis difformibus ' (Fl. Leyd. p. 514), without ever having seen a 

 specimen of the plant; and subsequently laid into his herbarium, 

 at different times, specimens of two very dissimilar species, believing, 

 at the time of laying in, that each was the plant referred to by 

 Royen. It is worthy of note that Esper understood the Linnean 

 description to refer to R. palmuta (Esp. Icon. Fuc. p. 148, tab. 75). 

 It is equally doubtful what Hudson's Fucus aixpus really was. The 

 synonyms given in the first edition of the Flora Aiujlira, p. 472 

 (1762), would lead one to suppose it was the present species; but 

 in the second edition Hudson adds a reference to the Fucus crisjms 

 of Linnaeus (Mantissa Plnntanwt, p. 134 (1767)), which makes one 

 doubt whether his plant may not have been only a variety of 

 Chondrus crispus.) Distribution. Coasts of Cornwall (St. Minver, 

 Padstow, Penzance, Mount's Bay, Falmouth, Looe, Fowey) ; Devon 

 (Plymouth, Torquay, Exmouth, Sidmouth) ; Dorset (Weymouth, 

 Swanage) ; Hants (Isle of Wight); Sussex (Bognor, Worthing, 

 Brighton, Hastings); Kent (Folkestone, Dover, South Foreland, 

 Deal, Ramsgate) ; Essex (Clacton, Dovercourt) ; Suffolk (Felix- 

 stowe) ; Norfolk (Yarmouth, Cromer) ; Yorks. (Filey) ; Durham 

 (Sunder land, Marsden) ; Northumberland (Cullercoats, Alnmouth, 

 Holy Island, Berwick). Isle of Man. Wales : Anglesea (Puffin 

 Island). Scotland: Haddiugton (Dunbar); Edinburgh (Joppa) ; 

 Fife (Elie, Earlsferry) ; Forfar (Arbroath) ; Kincardine (Cove, 

 Stonehaven, Bay of Nigg, Girdleness) ; Aberdeen (Peterhead) ; 

 Orkney Islands (Kirkwall Bay) ; Argyle (Locli Etive, Loch Creran, 

 Lismore) ; Bute (Isles of Arran, Bute, and C umbrae) ; Ayr (Ar- 

 drossan). Ireland: Cork (Bantry Bay); Down (Belfast Lough); 

 Galway (Roundstone Bay) ; Clare (Miltown Malbay, Kilkee) ; Kerry 

 (Dingle). Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney). Not 

 uncommon. 



P. Brodiai J. Ag. Coasts of Cornwall (Falmouth, Whitsand 

 Bay, Plymouth) ; Devon (Torquay); Hants (Isle of Wight); Dur- 

 ham (Marsden); Northumberland (Whitley, Bamborough, Holy 

 Island, Berwick). Wales : Anglesea. Scotland : Haddington 

 (Dunbar, North Berwick, Longniddry) ; Edinburgh (Joppa, Leith, 

 Caroline Park) ; Fife (Elie, Earlsferry, Pittenweem) ; Forfar (Dun- 

 dee, Firth of Tay); Elgin (Lossiemouth) ; Orkney Islands (Kirk- 

 wall) ; Bute (Isles of Arran, Cumbrae, and Bute). Ireland: Down 

 (Strangford Lough, Bangor, south side of Belfast Lough) ; Antrim 



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