Xemalion. HELMINTB&CLADEJB. 419 



Frondes ex sculuta basi plures, sa'pe pendeules, vel mari rcilucnle 

 lumbricorum ad inslar super rupes halanoplioras cxpansa?, exsiceala- suli- 

 cornoaj chordam musicam grossiorem referenle.-, aliquando ealamum scri- 

 ptorium crassa-, exsiccatione vero valdc coulractir, 4 IJ-pollicares, aliqunndo 

 bipcdales, a basi ad apicem plus iniims attcnuaUr, ulplurimuni simplicis- 

 sima?, rarissime f urea la 1 , axillis acutis, aul a lYonde truncata prolilVur. 

 Color obscure purpureus, saepius I'uivus ant luiide viron<. 



Plurima liujus vidi spLH-iniina viva el semper sibi conslantia! Species 

 itaque a sequcnlc distincta mibi \idetur. Kst major, simplicior, exsicca- 

 tioue magis cornea; caHcrum sequent! proxima. I.irel auctoros laudali 

 Flora; Capraria> suam plantain a Dubya na lonye diversam pracdiccnt, ut- 

 ramque tamcn conjungeudam essc suspicor. 



2. N. .MULTIFIDI.M (Web. et Mohr. Reis. p. 193) fronde dicholoma 

 decomposita, axillis rotuiulatis. 



Rivularia multifida Web. ct Mohr. 1. c. lab. III. fig. \\ Roth. Cat. Dot. 

 III. p. 335! 



Nemalion multiiidum J. Ag. in Linn. XV. p. 453. Hare. Phyc. Uiit. 

 tab. \\XVI! Kul-.. sp. p. 712! 



Mesogloia multifida Ag. Syst. p. 50! Berk. Glean, lab. IG/fy. I! Ha IT. 

 Man. p. Ml Mont. pi. Cell. Canar. p. 1 89! 



Chordaria multifida Lyngb. Hijdr. Dan. p. ''-> I. Fl. Dan. lab. 1IJGO. 



Helminthora multifida Kiilz. Plnjc. yen. lab. 44 fiy. 3. Aresc/i. Enum. 

 p. 94 tab. IV. //. 



Mesogloia Balani Carm. mscr. 



Chaetophora rubra Ay. Syn. p. '127. 



Exsicc. Wyatt. Damn. n:o 98.' 



llab. in oceano atlantico a liltoro Nonogi.T usque ad Canarias 

 (Webb.); ad insulam St~. Croix (Oei'stcd!); in Sinn Codano ot inaii 

 Haltico ! 



Frondes a disco niinori plerumque 3 6-pollicares, pennam cultim- 

 binam crassa j , aliquando crassiores, cylindricie, elastice gelalinosa 1 , diclm- 

 tomo-decompositae, axillis plus minus patcntibus et rotimdalis. C.nlor 

 cocci neo-purpureus. 



Harvey et Arcsclioug ulramquc Nemalionis spcciem in uiiaiii cun- 

 jungunt. Mihi,. utramquc plantam vivam examinanti, numquam sane in 



2a. N. COMOSUM (Meneyh. (Horn. l>ol. -1844 p. 2H 1 .)) iVonde cumplanala 

 tlabellato-dichotoma, se^'inenlis eadem raliono multoties divisis, >ursum 

 furcatis, axillis rotundalis, apicibns ohtusis. Alt. 2". Color ru-m . 

 Splia-rospora? crcbra? c filorum corticaliiim articulo exln'mo ml;r. 

 Aw/i. Sp. Alg. p. 713. 



Hab. ad oras Dalmatia;. 



27* 



