'ZIO BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. {Txhoclosimiuea , 



Genus XLYII. GLOIOSIPIIONIA, Carmichael. 



Gen. Char. Frond cylindrical, tubular, gelatinous ; the peri- 

 phery composed of a thin stratum of longitudinal, interlaced 

 fibres, clothed externally with sliort, horizontal, branched, moni- 

 liform filaments. Fructification, spherical masses oP spores 

 (favellidia) immersed in the moniliform filaments to whose base 

 they are attached. — The name signifies a viscid tube. — Harvey. 



1. Gloiosiphonia CAPiLLAEis, Carmicliael. 



Hab. On submarine rocks and in tide-pools, near low- 

 water mark. Annual. Summer. In England, by Hudson, 

 Mrs. Griffiths, Miss Warren, Sir T. Frankland, Ecv. H. 

 Davies, Mr. Ealfs ; in Ireland, Miss Hutchins, Dr. Drum- 

 mond, Miss Gower, Mr. M'Calla ; in Scotland, Captain 

 Carmichael, D. L., and D. L. jun. ; Jersey, Miss White and 

 Miss Turner. 



This is still a rare plant, even in England, and yet more 

 so in Scotland, where it had been discovered only by Capt. 

 Carmichael till it was found on the coast of Ayrshire. To 

 see that it is a beautiful plant, we have only to look at the 

 admirable drawing of it in Phyc. Brit., PI. lvii., and to 

 two excellent figures of it in Turner's ' Historia Eucorum,' 

 all three true to nature in the different phases which it 

 assumes. So rare was it forty years ago, when Mr. Turner 



