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nate ; articulations of the stem cylindrical, 3 or 4, of pinnue 

 2 or 3 times longer than broad ; tetraspores on the tips of 

 the pinnules. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. ii. p. 345 ; IVyalt, 

 Alg. Daiim. No. 45. 



On mud-covered rocks near low-water mark. Pier, Torquay, Mrs. 

 Griffiths. Milford Haven, Mr. Ralfs. Falmouth, Miss Warren. Ply- 

 mouth, abundantly, Rev. W. S. Hare, &c. — Filaments 1 — 4 inches high, 

 irregularly branched, exceedingly slender, distichous; main branches lew, 

 unequally plumulate for their whole length ; lower plumules short, vaguely 

 pinnate ; upper from half an incli to an inch long, narrow-ovate or lanceo- 

 late, acute, patent, bi-tripinnate ; outline of the principal branches broadly 

 ovate. Colour rose-red. Tetraspores minute, elliptical, on the tips of 

 shortened pinuulee. Favellce roundish, lobed, on the principal branches. 



23. C. tht(i/oldeuin, Sm. ; repeatedly branched in an alter- 

 nate manner, distichous ; branches set with alternate, lanceo- 

 late, narrow, bipinnate plumules ; articulations of the stem 

 2— 6 times longer than broad; capsules on the tips of the 

 pinnulaj. Harr. in Hook. Br. Fl. ii. p. 346 ; Harv. Phyc. 

 Brit. t. cclxix. Conf. thityoides, E. Bot. t. 2205. Cal. iri- 

 jnnnntum, Harv. I. c. (not of Ayardh) ; Wyatt, Alg. Danm. 

 No. 186. 



On rocks near low-water mark, rare. Yarmouth, Mr. Borrer. Ply- 

 mouth, BIr. Sconce. Pier, Torquay, 3Irs. Griffiths. Wicklow. Porta- 

 ferry, 3Ir. IV. Thompson. Roundstone, Mr. W. M' Calla. — Frond 1 or 2 

 inches high, sub-simj)le below, alternalely branched above, the branches 

 disiichous, generally having two or more series of lesser branches, vvhich 

 are also alternate ; the minor branches, and sometimes all the divisions of 

 the froud, set at every joint with alternate, patent, closely bipinnate plu- 

 mules, of a very narrow, linear-oblong figure. Articulations of the stem 

 very variable in length in different specimens ; in some twice, in others 

 six* times as hmg as broad, more or less swollen at the joints. Tetraspores 

 on the tips of shortened piunulce. Colour a fine rose-red. Substance soft 

 and flaccid. The first plumule of the branches or pinnule of the plumules 

 frequently rises from the axil, especially in a variety having shorter joints 

 to the stem than usual, which led me in Br. Fl. to regard this variety as 

 the Cal. tripinnatum of Agardh, a species, one of whose chief characters is 

 this axillary raraulus. Agardh's plant proves, however, on inspection of 

 authentic specimens, to be very difterent, and, having been recently disco- 

 vered in Britain, is above described. 



Section 4. Corymbosa. Stems articulated ; ramuli dicho- 



tomous. (Sp. 24—26.) 



24. C. corymbositm, Sm. ; capillary, flaccid, gelatinous ; 

 secondary branches alternate, excessively dichotomous, sub- 

 flabellate, level-topped; ramuli dichotomous, byssoid ; arti- 

 culations of the branches 8 — 10 times longer than broad ; 



