Gloiocladia.'] gloiosiphoxia. 211 



published his standard work, that he wrote of it in the 

 following manner : — 



"The whole catalogue of British Fuci does not contain a 

 single plant that has been so much involved in doubt as 

 F. capillaris ; for, being known only by Hudson's short and 

 unsatisfactory description, and being a plant of unfrequent 

 occurrence, even on the British shores, to which alone it 

 appears to be confined, its very existence as a distinct 

 species has been ^considered so questionable, that neither 

 Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Woodward in their ' Observations 

 on the British Tuci,' nor Ish. Stackhouse iu his ' Nereis 

 Britannica,' nor Professor Gmelin in his edition of the 

 ' Systema Naturse,' have ventured on introducing it ; and 

 even at the time of publishing the ' Synopsis of the British 

 Fuci,' I had seen nothing more than two small specimens, 

 so that I could say little respecting it which might be satis- 

 factory either to my readers or myself. I have therefore 

 felt a particular pleasure at being now enabled to remove it 

 beyond the reach of doubt, through the kindness of my 

 friends. Sir Thomas Frankland and Rev. H. Davies, both 

 of whom, by communications with Hudson himself, know- 

 it to be the plant designed by that author, and both find 

 it upon their own shores. '^ 



