VESICULARIADiE : SERIALARIA. 



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subdichotomous ; cells in isolated groups, erects loith wide un- 

 even apertures. Doody. 



Fig. 68. 



Fucoides lendigerum capillaraentis Cuscutae instar implexis, Rail Syn. 38, no. 3. — Nit 

 Coralline, Ellis Corall. 27, no. 24, pi. 15, fig. h, B. — Sertularia lendigera, Zzw. 

 Syst. 1311. Pall. Elencli. 124. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 52. Oliv. Zool. Adriat. 

 289. Esper Pflanz. Sert. tab. 9, fig. 1, 2, Turt. Gmel. iv. 682. Berk. Syn. i. 

 218. Stew. Elem. ii. 445. Wern. Mem. i. 564. Turt. Brit. Faun. 215. Bosc 

 Vers. iii. 117. Hogg's Stock. 33. Lister in Phil. Trans, an. 1834, 384.— La Ser- 

 tolara lendinosa, Cavol. Polip. Mar. 229, tav. 9, fig. 1, 2. D. Chiaie Anim. s. vert. 

 Nap. iv. 146. — Scrialaria lendigera, Lam. Anim. s. vert. ii. 130 : 2de edit. ii. 169. 

 Risso L'Europ. ]\Ierid. v. 315. Flem. Brit. Anim. 547. Stark Elem. ii. 439. 

 Templeton in Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 467. Couch Zooph. Comw. 37. Blainv. Acti- 

 nolog. 476, pi. 38, fig. 2. Couch Corn. Faun. iii. 94, pi. 16, fig. 4.— Amathia 

 lendigera, Lamour. Cor. flex. 159. Expos. Method, p. 10. Corall. 68, 



Hah. On Fuci near low-water mark, frequent on the shores of 

 England and Ireland, and occurs also on mauy parts of the Scotch 

 coast. Partial to Halidrys siliquosa as a base : occasionally on other 

 zoophytes, as Gemmellaria loriculata, &c., W. Thompson. 



" This extremely small climbing coralline arises from very minute 

 tubes, by which it adheres to Fucuses and other marine bodies ; and 

 is so disposed from its jointed shape, that it climbs up and runs over 

 other corallines and Fucuses, as Dodder does over other plants." Ellis. 

 The tufts thus formed resemble a flock of hair with clusters of nits 

 scattered over it; and although the comparison is an ugly one, it is 



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