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Between tide-marks, on stones and the larger Algfe ; also in 4 — 15 

 fathom water in muddy bays. Annual. Summer. All round the coast. 

 — Fronds 8 — 16 inches to 6 feet in length, half an inch to 2 or 6 inches in 

 diameter, suddenly contracted at base into a cylindrical stem, inflated, here 

 and there occasionally contracted, of an oblong, linear or club-shaped out- 

 line, a semi-transparent, delicately membranous substance and pale olive 

 colour, adhering to paper. Dots of fructification very minute, roundish, 

 densely scattered over the surface. 



3. A. echinatus, Mert. ; frond cylindrical, obtuse, linear, 

 gradually tapering at base. Grev. Alg. Br. /?. 50. A.Jistu- 

 losus, Hook. Br. Fl. ii. p. 277 ; Wyait, Alg. Damn. No. 7. 

 Ulvajist. t. 642 ; Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. cxciv. j3. vermicu- 

 laris, Griff. ; frond setaceous, filiform, twisted. A. vermicu- 

 laris, Moore, Ord. Survey, Londonderry, Bot. p. 9 ; 0. 

 Wyatt, Alg. Damn. No. 207. 



Rocks between tide-marks ; common. Annual. Summer and autumn. 

 jS. Torquay, Mrs. Griffiths. — Very variable in size ; the fronds from two 

 inches to two feet in length, and from the thickness of a hog's bristle to 

 half an inch in diameter, linear, more or less tapered at base. Dots of 

 fructification crowded, and often completely covering the surface. ^, which 

 is usually as slender as a bristle, and at most scarcely a line in diameter, 

 might easily pass, at first sight, for a distinct species, but there are inter- 

 mediate sizes between it and the normal state. Enccelium Lyngbyanum, 

 Grev. Crypt, t. 290, represents a large variety of this species. 



XII. LiTosiPHON. Harv. [Plate 8, D.] 



i^rowfl? unbranched, cylindrical, filiform, cartilaginous, sub- 

 solid, at length tubular, composed of several rows of cells ; 

 the surface areolated. Fructijication : solitary or aggre- 

 gated naked spores, scattered irregularly over the surface of 

 the frond. Name, xitos, slender, and (ri(pcov, a tube. 



1. C. pusillus, Carm.; fronds tufted, thread-shaped, very 

 long, equal in diameter throughout, reticulated, clothed with 

 pellucid hairs ; spores scattered. Asperococcus inisillus, 

 Carm. Hook. Br. Fl. ii. p. Til ; Wyatt, Alg. Damn. No. 58 ; 

 Harv. Man. ed. 1, p. 35 ; Kirv. Phyc. Brit. t. cclxx. 



Parasitical on Chorda flum. A.inual. Summer. — Fronds 2 — 6 inches 

 long, as thick as a hog's bristle, straight or curled, densely covering the 

 fronds of the Chorda in patches 1 — 2 feet or more in length. Spores oval, 

 prominent, scattered, or one or two together. 



2. C. Laminarice, Lyngb. ; fronds stellately tufted, short, 

 subulate, tapering to an obtuse point, smooth, transversely 

 banded, the bands close together ; spores four or more in 

 each transverse band. Bangia Laminar im. Hook. Br. Fl. 

 ii. p. 316 ; Harv. Man. ed. 1, p. 172. 



