Desniia. SPHJE&OCOCCOIDB& (>:i<) 



Hcring. miraliilom in Conf. mii-alnU-m Lranaire, et hanc ia iJlam transmu- 

 tari olim docuit C. Agardh. Appamitia aulom dun-plum fuissu Cliaini.-.., 

 Hudolphi, Harvey, Decaisne (II. cc.) i-t Ipsu diMminsiniu- riuiati MIIMIIS. 

 Et in C. mirahili ct in aliis /oospe-rmeis, ul llorin-ia \el alia r'londra 

 supra illas evolvatur, expandilur supra Confervam illamqut- di'inmn iii\c-iit 

 stratum horizontal plantfc Florklca-, ex quo frons dein \ci-liraliirr -urml. 

 Hoc ct ipsc v\d'i (Fdrhandl. Skand. Nalurf. i Chrisdaiiin ;>. 176) ct cxiinii- 

 exposuit Decaisne. (I'l. >lc I' Arab. p. <l6.'i). 



Mira sane persovcrantia persistit Kiitxiugius hanc spccicm (ididin 

 siibjungcre, a quo gencrice dill'crt slruclura frondis ([iravsL-nlia tulii i cn- 

 tialis!), coccidiortim structura omiiino divcrsa (Cyslocarpia in (ii>lidiu Itilo- 

 cularia!) et spha?rosporis zonatim divisis ( sjihaM'ospor.T crucialim di\i-a- 

 in Gelidio!). In Algis Modit. Spha?r. rostratuni el Sph. mirabiloni 

 Heringijr nominaveram. N 7 ihilominus tamen Kiitzingius lias formas in 

 diversissima genera distrahit! 



CYII? DESMIA J. Ay. mscr. Dcsmio; sp. Lynyb. Hydr. Dan. 

 p. 33 Chondrococci sp. Kiitz. in Mohl. Hot. Zeit. 1847 p. 23 

 et Sp. Alg. p. 752. 



Frons gelatinoso-cartila{;inea comprosso-plana imiucrsc coslata, Iri- 

 plici slrato constituta; costa a tuho central! articulato siii;;ulo 

 consfante; strato intonnodio cellulis ohlonjjo-rotundalis; jicri- 

 pherico niinutis verlicaliter in Ilia ahbroviata sorialis. Cy*tocar- 

 pia . . . Sphcerospora (?in verrucis nomalliocioideis cvolul;e?). 



Frondes conipressa; ant aliquando lore planac, pinnalim dpcnin- 

 posita 1 , rocontes ut videtur gelatinosfe, exsiccalic cartilaginea?, madc- 

 lact.'e citissime dissolute (vix hoc tantuni prava pnoparaliono), 

 miniato- aut coccineo-purpnre. r o, cito decolorata?, cosla inuncrsa ct 

 in parte incrassata inforiore paruin conspicua porciirs;e. Slralis 

 Iribus contexts sunt. Tuhus contrails articiilatns, articulis diainr-tro 

 ])luries longiorihus, costam constituit; longitudine arliculorum ct 

 f,'ndocl)romate fluido siibcoloralo a circinnjacoiitiljiis cellulis di>- 

 tinctus. Cellulaj strati medii aiuylacca subslnnlia farct;c; interioro. 

 ol)longa3, oxteriores rolundataj, oinnes laxissinie coluorcntes. Slra- 

 l u ni peripliericum cellulis luinulis, endochroraate coloraiis, in lila 

 brevia verticalia seriatis, conslat. Friiclus admodinn ob.M'iiri <[ \i\ 

 cogniti. Infra tila strati peripherici obveniiint corpora ylobosa ad- 

 modum magna, intensius colorata, dense per Irondein spar>a; h;cr 

 aliquando divisa vidi. Stratum peripliericum hi> lot-is Icrtilibus aut 

 vix mutalum, aut aliijuando, sod ut videtur nulla lial.ila oi-anoriini 

 mox descriptorum ratinne, in (ila abbreviala densissimc slipata 



