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garded it as a Chondrus. It is gathered and employed for 

 culinary purposes along with Cliondms cnsjpus, or Carrageen. 

 Indeed, the lady who first collected Carrageen in Ayrshire, 

 to make blanc-mange, gave the preference to this species, 

 saying, that it was more gelatinous than the other. I have 

 seen the fronds in the Clyde more than an inch broad. The 

 Plate cxcix. in Phyc. Brit, would be very good if it were 

 darker. 



Genus LXIV. GELIDIUM, Lamoitr. 



Gen. Char. Prond, between cartilaginous and corneous, piano- 

 compressed, distichously branched, branches pinnate or bipin- 

 nate, pinnae spreading or horizontal, obtuse, capsules spherical, 

 immersed in the extremities of the ramuli. — Greville. 



1. Gelidium cohneum, Lamour. 



Hab. On rocks in the sea and in rock-pools. Perennial. 

 Summer. On most of the rocky shores. It is found in 

 great beauty by Miss Cutler at Budleigh. 



" The varieties of this species,"^ says Dr. Greville, " are 

 almost endless, and som.e of them so singular, that without 

 practical knowledge to guide us in our investigation they 

 may be taken for very distinct species." I can vouch for 

 the truth of this, for in a very beautiful variety sent to me 



