•310 BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. {ClilowqKrmecB . 



This is one of the most attractive of our Algfc. The 

 colour is a rich glossy green ; the form is symmetrical, and 

 resembles the feathers of a green parrot. The first notice 

 of this plant is by Hudson, in his 'Plora xVnglica.^ See 

 good figures of it in Alg. Brit., PL xix., and in Phyc. Brit., 

 PI. III. j the latter, though beautiful, is not glossy enough, 

 and the green is lighter than in our Ayrshire specimens. 



'1. Bryopsis hypxoides. Lam, 



Ilab. In rock-pools near low-water mark, or on other 

 Algae in deep water. Annual. Summer. Very abundant 

 in the west of Ireland beyond tide-mark on Laminaria 

 sacchariua. 



This is much rarer in Scotland than Bryopsis jplnmosa. 

 Pound by Sir Wm. Jardine at Southerness, Kirkcudbright ; 

 by Dr. Hasell, Prestonpans ; by Mr. E. M. Stark at Xorth 

 Berwick ; and by Isabella Landsborough at Seamill, north 

 of Ardrossan, in considerable abundance in rock-pools. It 

 is more branchy, more slender, more flaccid, and of a 

 yellower green than B. plumosa, and on the whole less 

 beautiful. The specimens got at Seamill were fine large 

 ones, and comparing them with the excellent specimens of 

 B. plumosa found at Saltcoats, I had no doubt at the time 

 that they were distinct. The colour and the branching 



