CAULERPACEAE. 



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2. Bryopsis hypnoid.es Lamour. loc. cit.; Jour, tie Bot. 2: 135. pi. 5. f. 2 a, b. 



1809. 



Found washed ashore probably from a little deeper water than the last. 

 Great Bahama : southern Massachusetts to Bermuda ; widely distributed in the 

 warm temperate seas. Type from near Cette, southern France. 



3. Bryopsis Duchassaingii J. Ag. 6fv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 11: 107. 1854. 



Trichosolen Antillarum Mont. Ann. Sei. Nat. Bot. IV. 14: 171. 1860. 



Found washed ashore. Great Bahama: Bermuda to Guadeloupe (Barbados?). 

 Type from Guadeloupe. 



Family 10. CAULERPACEAE. 



1. CAULERPA Lamour. Xouv. Bull. Sei. Soe. Philom. 1: 332. My 1809. 

 Chauvinia Bory, Voy. Coquille, Bot. Crypt. 204. 1829. 

 Tricladia Deeaisne, Ann. Sei. Nat. Bot. II. 17: 337. 1842. 

 Herpochaeta Mont. Ann. Sei. Nat. Bot. II. 20: 305. 1S43. 

 Stephanocoelium Kiitz. Bot. Zeit. 5: 54. 1847. 

 Chemnitzia (Deeaisne) Mont. Orb. Diet. 10: 53. 1849. 

 Phyllerpa Kiitz. Sp. Alg. 494. 1849. 



1. C. 



Stolons and upright fronds similar, filiform, in habit somewhat 

 Vaucheria, Derbesia, or the irregularly branched species 

 of Bryopsis. 

 Stolons and upright fronds more or less different in form. 

 Fronds filiform, the ramuli verticillate (at least the 

 upper), fastigiate or subfastigiate, di- or trichotomous. 

 Fronds stouter, ramuli not in distinct whorls. 



Fronds foliaceous, entire, linear or elliptic-oblong, 



often proliferous. 

 Fronds terete, subterete, or angled, or, if flattened, 

 pinnately dentate, lobed, or plumose-pinnate. 

 Fronds distinctly flattened. 



Fronds plumose-pinnate, the pinnules terete, 



mucronate. 

 Pinnules or teeth flattened. 



Fronds linear-lanceolate in outline, 615 

 mm. broad, the pinnules often contracted 

 at base. 

 Fronds narrowly linear, 2-3 mm. broad, 

 often twisted and constricted here and 

 there, the margins occasionally entire. 

 Fronds terete, subterete, or angled, in general 

 outline. 

 Stolons densely clothed with short simple or 

 sparingly branched root-hairs: fronds 

 with crowded, imbricate, bristle-like, mu- 

 cronate ramuli. 

 Stolons naked. 



Frond with a naked stipe bearing usually 

 a dichotomo-palmate or dichotomo-umbel- 

 late cluster of secondary ramuliferous 

 branches'; ramuli (2) 3-10 (16) -ranked, 

 with acicular 2-ranked ramelli pectinately 

 secund or pinnately disposed, the longer 

 often sparingly dichotomous or again 

 pinnate. 

 Stipe usually not well differentiated. 



Frond usually angled, the ramuli mostly 

 in 26 ranks, somewhat boat-shaped 

 or prow-shaped fat least the basal). 

 ovoid, mamilliform, or less commonly 

 terete, always mucronate. 

 Frond not angied, the ramuli subglobose, 

 pyriform, pestle-shaped, or occa- 

 sionally subclavate. 

 Ramuli in more or less elongate 

 raceme-like clusters, several-ranked, 



suggestive of 

 fastigiata. 



2. C. vcrtieillata. 



3. C. prolifera. 



4. C. scrtularioides. 



5. C. crassifolia. 



6. C. Freycinctii. 



7. C. Uniuyinosa. 



8. C. paspaloidcs. 



9. C. cuprcssoides. 



