222 BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. {TxliOilospermecB. 



at that rate, it would have yielded more to the industrious 

 inhabitants of the sea-shore than even a crop of their fa- 

 vourite potatoes. The fashion, however, has gone out, and 

 the price has fallen ; but the food prepared from it is as 

 good as ever, and they who have tasted it once with good 

 rich cream, will need no coaxing to partake of it a second 

 time. 



2. Chondrus Norvegicus, Lamour. 



Hab. Eocky shores. Annual ? September to November. 



This is a pretty little plant ; rather rare. Though called 

 Norvegicmj it is oftener got in the south of England than 

 in Norway. It is found in England, Scotland, and Ireland ; 

 occasionallv onlv on the Avrshire coast. The stem is cylin- 

 drical, the axils are patent, and the apices rounded. Eor an 

 excellent figure of it, see Pliyc. Brit., PL clxxxyii. 



Genus LYI. PHYLLOPHORA, Greville. 



Gen. Char. Erond cartilaginous, or membranaceous, of a 

 purple rose-red colour, plane, proliferous from the disc, furnished 

 with a more or less imperfect or obscure midrib. Fructification : 

 1, capsules, containhig a mass of minute roundish free seeds; 2, 

 sori of simple granules in httle foliaceous processes. (In two 

 species nemathccia have been observed, but no granules.) — Grev. 



