(iracilarin. SHI.I-KOCOCCOIDKI:. 5J)5 



SphaM-ococcus disticbus J. A//. 1. c. Kiil'-. .vy. ;>. Ti8\ 

 Hab. in man rubro (I'.iippH !) ;ul oras Ilindoslanisc (Wi;;lil!). 



Gr. compressac proxima, dillu-l pra-ripuc frondc densius rauiu>a rn- 

 mulisquu minutis aculeiformilms apice sa^pe I'mvali-; mutiiiili<qiir. Numm 

 c.Tterum ineptum putcr, revera cnim habitus distichus exsirralione frondis 

 rollabentis provenire, affinis suadet Gr. eompressa, cui ramos dislii lius 

 quoqiie olim adscripserunt. Subslanlia niayniliido cl ramiiicalio Gr. com- 

 pressae 1 , color nostroruin omnium a'niginosus, apicibus lutesceotibus. Slru- 

 cturam et spbaerosporas generis vidi. 



Specimen (in Hb. Horncmaiini auLlientioum) Gigarlinrc conlortaj Dory 

 Cof/ii. babitu nostram spcciem \aldc a.Miiidatiir, sed irons tcrctiuscula cl 

 ramuli firmiores minus; actili. Ha'c pru'torea ex oris Chilcnsibus orla. 



12. GK. COHMCULATA (R. Br. mscr.) fronde ex If-reli comprossa oar- 

 tilajjinea (juocjuovorsum pinnato-ramosa, raniis paruni docoin- 

 positis raiunlisqiio \a;;is cxiinie patontibus, a basi lalioro longe 

 acuininatis rijjidiusculis, coccidiis. . . . 



Fucus corniculatus li. Br. mscr. Turn. Hist. Ftic. III. tab. is?! 

 Spheerococcus corniculatus Ag. Sp. Alg. p. 28S! 

 Chondroclonium corniculatum Kitlz. sp. p. 74(i! 



Ilab. ad oras Novae llolland'uo (II. Urovtii, lib. Grovillc!); c\ 

 Port Philippe dedit Malm! 



Frondes a disco radicali ct fibroso assurgentes 2 3-pOllicares, crassi- 

 tie fere penna? passeriua?. reci-ntes ut videtur tcretiii>cul;c et earnosn\ 

 exsiccatione compressa? et subcartilagilieae, comprcssione in media frondis 

 parte prajcipue conspicua. Rami nunc inferne fere milli, mine parum 

 supra basin jam provcnientes, majores frondi conformes quasi dicbotomi 

 et patentcs; minores semipollicares superne numerosiores plerumque paten- 

 tissimi, ramellis paucis conformilms instructi, omnes a basi latiorc liniyi- 

 acuminali, acuti et rigidi. Spba-rospors in ramulis circumcirca nidulan- 

 tes, inter cellulas in tila abbreviata conjunclas strati peripheries nidulantrs, 

 rotundato-oblonga?, cruciatim divisa). 



Ha3c species ob Algologis hodiernis parum cognita videtur, in syste- 

 matibus quoque diu circumvaga. Gn.-villeo Gelidium, Kiit/in^io C.liondro- 

 cloniuin fail. Turnerus Fuco gigartino proximum judica\it, quod jiidirmm 

 Ipse, Kndliclier et Kiit/.ing sccuti videntur. Ipse dein specimiin 1 slerili 

 observato llypneam, babilu et structura ducente, crea\i. S|li;rro>pon-; 

 hodie cognitis Gracilariaiu puto. Vera aflinitas non nisi ry-locarpus 111- 

 ventis dijudicatur. -- Species cactcnun sine dubio distinctissima, licet segre 

 cbaracteres iuvcniaulur. 







13. GK. US.NEOIDES (Mert. mscr.) fronde lereli succulenta, oxsiccationo 

 collapsa cartilaginca, dicliotonio-ramosa, ramis subdiilichis ajiico 



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