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of the vesicles. The former arise not from the sides exactly, "but 

 rather on the edge of the pinnules, (" in alteram stirpis latus ver- 

 gentes,") and this character is obvious enough with a good magnifier : 

 the latter are comparatively small, ob-conical, with a series of 

 tubercles or segments above, while the centre projects in the shape 

 of a cone or nipple open on the top. (Fig. 10, b.) The cells are 

 semialternate, appressed, the upper portion scarcely everted, the 

 mouth wide with a plain rim usually sinuated next the side of the 

 rachis — The description which Mr. Couch has given of the imma- 

 ture vesicle of S. nigra applies to the vesicle of this species. 



8, S. FuscA, pinnate, hlacMsli ; pinna filiform ; cells very 

 small, appressed, tubular, four-roived ; vesicles pearshaped, 

 smooth. Robert Brown.'"' 



Woodcut, No. 6, on Page 57 : and Fig. 11. 



Sertularia nigra, Jameson in Wem. Mem. i. 565. Jolms. Brit. Zooph. 128. Mac- 

 ()iUivray in Ann. Nat. Hist, ix, 463. — Dynamena nigra, Flem. Brit. Anim. 545. 



Hah. — Coast of Aberdeenshire, R. Brown. Coast of Northum- 

 berland at Dunstanborough Castle, from deep water, R. Emhleton. 

 Scarborough, W. Bean. Whitburn, co. Durham, Miss M. Dale. 



* The author of tlie " Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandlaj." 



