138 SEAWEEDS. 



The Sea Endive (Haliseris) was once given to me from 

 the coast of Devon ; it resembles the Dictyota, but has a 

 distinctly marked mid-rib. 



The Cutleria, a southern species named after Mrs. 

 Cutler, varies from these by the tips of the branches 

 being repeatedly torn. 



The most attractive member of the order is the Pea- 

 cock weed (Padina pavonea, Plate II, Jig. 4) ; it is an 

 annual peculiar to Jersey and the south of England. 

 When my cousin was staying at Lyme Regis, there were 

 some rock pools which she called her garden, and here 

 the Peacock weed grew in abundance. The fronds are 

 fan-shaped, from one and a half to four inches high, 

 covered with down and zoned with shades of brown and 

 green. 



The Taonia, also named in allusion to a peacock, has 

 a frond torn into fingers, which stow broader towards 

 the end, so that the whole frond has a somewhat fan- 

 shaped form. It is marked with waved lines, which 

 have a relationship to the zones of the last-named species 

 (T. atomaria). The fruit is in clusters upon the surface 

 of the frond. 



The Punctarias have tongue-shaped fronds, and the 

 fruit is scattered all over them like dots, hence the name. 

 The P. latifolia is olive green, and grows between tide 

 marks on the south coast. The P. plantaginea is more 

 generally diffused : it is dark brown, and grows on stones 

 or on larger alo-re. The P. tennissima is delicate and 

 pale, very transparent, and living as a parasite onzostera. 

 I have had specimens sent to me from Jersey. 



The next family, that of the Asperococcus, differs in the 



