Seu. GONGYLOSPEKME.E. ( 51 ) Fam. CRYPTONEMTACEyE. 



Plate LXXXVI. 

 CALLOPHYLLIS LACINIATA.— /L^wfe. 





GsN. Ciiah. — Frond flat, without veins or midrib, cellular ; cells minute, interspersed 

 with large empty spaces or vesicles. Fructification of two kinds, on distinct plants : 

 3. Convex tubercles (coccidia), in marginal leaf-like processes, containing minute 

 spores arranged in several groups ; 2. Tetraspores, arranged in cloud-like linear 

 patches near the margin. Name from (coAby, "beautiful," and ^-yAAor, "a leaf." 



Callophtllis laciniata. — Stem short, flattish, indistinct, suddenly 

 expanding into a roundish flabelUform frond, much divided in an in-egu- 

 larly dichotomous manner ; margins entire or fringed with minute cihte, 

 containing the tubercles. 



Callophtllis laciniata. — Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 401 ; /. G. Agardh, Sp. Gen. AJg. 

 vol. ii. p. 299 ; Harv. N. B. A. part 2, p. 171. 



Khodtmenia* laciniata. — Grev. Ahj. Brit. p. 86 ; Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. p. 289 ; 

 Wyatt, Alg. Damn. No. 17 ; Endl. 3rd Suppl. p. 51 ; Harv. in Mack. 

 Fl. Eih. part 3, p. 194; Harv. Man. p. 125; Harv. Syn. -p. 104; 

 Atlas, plate 39, fig. 179. 



Delesseria laciniata, — Grev. Fl. Edin. p. 293; Hook, in Fl. Lond. new series, 



No. 198. 

 Delesseria ciliaris. — Lamour. Ess. p. 37. 

 Halymenia ciliaris. — Gaill. Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. liii. p. 360. 



Sph.S!ROCOCCDS laciniatus. — Lyngh. Hyd. Dan. p. 12, t. 4 ; Ag. Sp. Alg. vol. i. 

 p. 297 ; Ag. Syst. p. 230 ; Hook. Fl. Scot, part 2, p. 103 ; Spreng. 

 Syst. Veg. vol. iv. p. 334. 



FtrctJS laciniatus. — Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 579 ; Lightf. Fl. Scot. p. 947 ; Sni. 

 E. Bot. t. 1068 ; Turn. Syn. Fuc. p. 161 ; Turn. Hist. t. 69 ; Esp. 

 Ic. Fuc. t. 140. 



Fucus crispatus. — Stack. Ner. Brit. t. 15. 



Fucus miniatus. — Fl. Dan. t. 769. 



FucDS crispus. — Esp. Ic. Fuc. t. 18. 



Hab. — On rocks, stones, old shells, and the stems of Laminaria, within tide-mark, 

 and in deep water. Biennial. January till August. Frequent on the British shores. 

 Very common in Ireland and the Channel Islands. 



Geogr. Dist. — Atlantic shores of Europe ; Faroe Islands ; eastern coasts of North 

 America. 



Description. — Root, a small spreading disc. Frond, from a short very 

 indistinct stem, flat, roundish, three to ten inches long, much divided in 

 a somewhat dichotomous or sub-flabelliform manner almost to the base, 



