Ectocarpea.'] cladostephus. 153 



called sea-laces ] in Orkney, catgiit-, in Shetland, hichy 

 Minni/s lines ; in Ayrshire, dead men's 7'0j)es, and we know 

 an instance in which it proved too deserving of the name : 

 a fine young man, in bathing, being entangled by it and 

 brought out dead. Tor an excellent figure with the hair- 

 like fibres ; for a part of the cylinder untwisted ; and for the 

 different kinds of fructification, see Phyc. Brit., PL cvir. 



2. Chorda lomentauia, Greville. 



Hab. Eocks in the sea. Annual. Common. 



Dr. Greville describes this well by saying that it is like 

 the intestine of an animal tied at certain intervals. Aspero- 

 coccus castaneus, Br. Flor., is the young of this, and is very 

 common in the spring on the coast of Ayrshire. 



Family V. ECTOCAEPE^. 



" Not a tree, 

 A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains 

 A folio volume. We may read, and read, 

 And read again, and still find sonJething new ; 

 Something to please, and something to instruct." 



Genus XXVI. CLADOSTEPHUS, AgardJi. 



Gen. Char. Pronds inarticulate, rigid, cellular, wborled, with 

 short, jointed, subsiraple ramuli. Practification, elliptical utricles, 



