nujlocladia. DIMONTIEJE. 361 



gregafa) ft immerse, spliajrica>, triangnle divisa?. (Kiilz. Pliycot. 



tab. 53. // el III). 



Frondes cylindracese ;iut leviter comprossae, vage ramosa? tint 

 subopposite pinnatjo, canali an;;usto tnbnlosa}, gelatinoso-meinbra- 

 nacetc, cnticula Ityalina anhista oincla-, rosco-purpurasccntes ant in 

 olivaceum tcndenles. Cystocarpia in ramis externa, mine (ere glo- 

 bosa, mine subconica ot demnni basi inllata lagen.ieformia. Spliajro- 

 sporu 1 in ramis incrassatis immersa;. 



Duplici slrato constitnuntur. Intornuin fills articnlafis vacuum lu- 

 binn sparsissime pcrcurrenfihiis constat; in ramis suporioiibus fero nul- 

 luni. in majoribus quoqnc pariun conspicuum. Stratum periplicricum 

 cellulis rotundirto-angulatis, plurilms soriebus clispositis, cxterioribus 

 rotundatis niinoribus et coloratis. I'oricarpium exlernis seiiobus 

 ccllularmn frondis contextnm osl; inlrorsiim vero continuuntur cel- 

 luhc filis anastoraosantibus, in roliculmn conjunctis, a j)lacenta ad 

 pericarpium cxtensis, ipsum micloum iindiqno circumdantibus. Pla- 

 centa supra planuiu basalc paulisper olevata, nucleuin siistinct. 

 Gerumidia oblongo-angulata, plurima ct, dense congesta, transfor- 

 matione lilornm ramoso-fastigiatorum, a placenta cgredienlium for- 

 mata, deinuin in nucleos plures miico cohibifos confjlobata. 



Spli.Trospor.ip in cellulis infra-epidermaticis evoluf.T, in ramis 

 initio sparsoo, dennim densiores et quasi in sorum consociatte; cel- 

 1 ulac fructigera) valdo intumescentes, inlra spalium, quod steriles 

 occupaverant, band coliibcntnr; sod pars frncligera introrsum magis 

 magisqno inllectitur, demumquo fero hemisplucrice expanditur, cry- 

 ptam ita a snperlicie depressam efficiens. Splia^rospora; pro mag- 

 nitndine frondinni magnai, omnino splia?rica), demum friangnlo 

 quadridivisa3. 



Species Imjus generis din cum Chondri;e ct Lomentariaj spe- 

 ciebns consociala) fuerunt. Condito llalymenieis qnibnsdam gonero 

 Chrysymeni.T, ad hoc species qnasdam Clivlocladhe novas, nna cum 

 dintins cognita Cli^l. clavellosa, referendas esse credidi. Scctionem 

 propriam, qiiain his finxeram, snbgenns creavit luidlicher, llelisco- 

 pliortc nomine. Dtio inlerea genera llelisrophorto speciebus sub- 

 stitncrat Kiil/ing, Chondrolharanion nimirum Ch. clavellosac, Chon- 

 drosiphon planl;u nova 1 , cpiam ant cum nostra Chr. aciculari identicam 

 snspicor ant huic sane (jnoad omncs characteres proximam. Dis- 

 positione spbasrosporarum ha.'c genera diU'errenl; sphaBrosporas sine 

 ordine sparsas in <:liondrotliamnio, in cavernnlis carpocluniorum 

 dense aggrogafas in Chondrosi phone describit. l ; lrnmque auteni, 



