Sm les Polyp. empat. in Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris torn. 2u. 



Hist. Polyp. Coralli I [816. p 



roux op. cit. | 

 Pinceau flabellé] Lamarck Anim. s.ms vert. tom. II. 1816. p. 341. 

 iviei Règne Animal. I\'. 1817. p. yj. 

 Lamouroux Expos. Méth. 1821. p. 22, tab. 25, figs. 2, 3. 

 Deslongchamps in Encyclop. Méth. Zoophyt. 1824 5. p. 



I ' ■ • hamps in op. cil p. 

 Blainville in Dict. Sci. Nat. XXXIV. 1825. p. 492. 

 ■ ; Blainville in op. cit. p 



Blainville in op. cit. XI. I. [826. p. 50. 

 Penicillus Phoenix Blainville Man. d'Actinolog. 1834. i>. ^53. 



•■.leillus triophora Blainville op. cit. p. 553. 

 Penicillus Phoenix Lamarck Anim. san- vert. Ed. II. tom. II. 1836. p. 525. 

 Penicillus Phoenix Decaisne in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2^« sér. tom. XVIII. [842. p. 110. 

 ? Corallocephahts eriophorus Kützing Species Algarum 1X49. p. 506. 

 Rhipocephalus Phoenix Kützing op. cit. p. 506. 



Nesea phoenix Duchassaing Animaux Radiaires des Antilles. Paris 1850. p. 28, 

 Rhipocephalus Phoenix Kützing Tab. Phyc. vol. VIII. 1858. p. 12. tab. 27, fig. II. 

 Penicillus phoenix Harvey Nereis Bor.-Amer. vol. III. 185S. p. 46. tab. XI. III. c. 

 Udotea plumula Crouan in Schramm et Mazé K-^ai de Class. Alg. de la Guadeloupe iSój.p. ?. 

 Udotea Phoenix Crouan in Maz< el Schramm Essai de Class. Alg. de la Guadeloupe. Ed. II. 



1870- - 1877. p. 87. 

 Udotea Phoenix var. elatior Crouan, in Mazé et Schramm loc. cit. 



Penicillus Phoenix Farlow in Proc. Amer. Acad. X. 1875. p. 378; also in U. S. l-'ish Comm. 

 Report, III. 1876. p. 712. 

 ? Nesea eriophora Lamour. in J. G. Agardh Till Alg. Syst. V. [887. p. 63. 

 Rhipocephalus phoenix J. G. Agardh op. cit. p. 65. 

 RJiipocephalus phoenix Murray in Journ. of Bot. XXVII. 1889. p. 23S. 

 Rhipocephalus phoenix var. elatior Murray loc. cit. 

 Rhipocephalus phoenix De Toni Syll. Alg. I. 1889 p. 504. 



Rhipocephalus phoenix A. & E. S. Gepp in Journ. of Botany. XI. III. 1905 p. 4. 

 Rhipocephalus phoenix Howe in Journ. New York Bot. Garden. IX. 1908. p. 125. fig. 18. 

 Rhipocephalus phoenix Collins Green Alg. X. Amer. in Tufts College Studus II. 1909. p. 393. 



//<//'. ATLANTIC. Banc de Bahama (sub nom. "Nesea Phoenix") Herb. Lamour oux\ — Bahamas, 

 Ilerb. Lamouroux in Herb. Mus. Paris) - Bahama Bank. F. M. Rayner\ — Bahamas. 

 Bemini Harbour, in 1 — 6 dm. of water at low tide, .1/. A. Howe n" ^239! — Bahama, 



irantine Cay, Herb. Collins) Florida, Rugel\ — Florida, Boca Chica Key, Southwick 

 in Herb. Collins! Florida, Key West, Harvey ! - - Key West, .1/. A. Howe in Phyc 

 Amer. n" 1030! — Key West, on sandy bottom in 6 dm. of water at low tide, Howe 

 n" [612! — Guadeloupe, Mazé n°s 848, 868, 1521, [ère S er. 11" 176, n" 24 (sub nom. 

 '■Udotea Phoenix var. elatior" ' Antilles, Herb. Decaisne] Without locality, Herb. 



\uvin\ — Without locality, Heib. Samuel Dale (1659 — 1739) in Herb. Mus. Brit.\ 



Stipes usually short 1 — 2.5 cm. in length (in one extraordinary specimen 15 cm. long . 

 5 mm. in diameter, compressed or terete, with smooth calcified surface very minutel) 

 lopor — under microscope. 



ipitulum very variable, from globose to cylindrico-conic, reaching ;i length ol 10 cm. 



1 width of 4 cm., usually about 3 5 cm. long and 1.5- 2.5 cm. broad; formed ol numerous, 



te, truncate or obtuse, normall) ascending, unilamellate, shortlj pedicellate Rabellules, 



