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HoRMOSPORA. Breb. [Plate 27, B]. 



Filaments gelatinous, confervoid, each inclosing a lineai' 

 series of oval or spherical cells. Endochronte green. Fruc- 

 tijication : cells of the filaments enlarged and converted into 

 spores. — Name, opi/.oi, a necklace, and aTro^oc, a seed or spore. 



1. H. ramosa, Thvv. ; filaments branched; endochrome 

 radiated. Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. ccxiii. 



Growing attached to the filaments of Cladophora fracta, in a salt-water 

 hike, near Wareham, Dorset, Rev. W. Smith. On a rock within reach of 

 the tide at Clevedon, Somersetshire, sparingly intermixed with Cocconcma 

 cistula, Mr. Tliumites. August and September. — " i^?7«i Hew te gelatinous, 

 irregularly branched. Cells at first subcylindrical and closely coherent ; 

 subsequently becoming oval and distinct. Endochrome pale green, ra- 

 diating from a central nucleus. Filaments at length resolved into separate 

 spores, each of which is surrounded by a considerable amount of gelatine. 

 The filaments, when young, are not unlike those of a Spharoplea, between 

 which genus and the PalmellecB, Hormospom would seem to form a con- 

 necting link." Thw, I. c. 



