SporocJinoidecE.'] sporochnus. '. 133 



Mrs. Balfour. Miss Turner and Miss White find it in 

 Jersey. 



Stem 6-18 inclies long, set with long, filiform, horizontal 

 branches, simple and mostly alternate. The colour yellowish- 

 green, and becoming brownish in age. " Few objects,^' says 

 Professor Harvey, " are more attractive to the eye of a 

 botanist than a fine frond of this species, as it waves its 

 feathery branches in the water."*^ He adds, that if the use 

 of the dredge were more general, this and many others 

 would probably cease to be thought rare. 



Genus XI. CAEPOMITRA, Kutz: 



Generic Character. Frond linear, dichotomous, flat, and mid- 

 ribbed (or filiform), olivaceous. Fructification, mitriform recep- 

 tacles terminating the branches, composed of horizontal branching 

 filaments, whorled round a vertical axis, and producing elliptic- 

 oblong seeds. — The name is from two Greek words signifying 

 mitre-fru it. — Harvey . 



1. CaHPOMITUA CABllERiE, Kutz. ^ 



This is extremely rare. Found by Miss Ball, in 1813, at 

 Youghal. Plymouth Sound, Eev. W. S. Hore and Dr. 

 Cocks, from both of whom we have had the pleasui'e of 

 receiving fine specimens. It was discovered at Cadiz, and 



