Chylocladia.] ALG.E RHODOSPERME.E. I99 



Fruct. of two kinds: 1. sphserical, ovate or conical capsules, 

 with wedge-shaped or angular seeds ; 2. imbedded, temate 

 Granules. — Name ; kv\o<s, juice, and ic\aSo<>; a branch ; from 

 the succulent nature of the frond. 



* Frond without constrictions. 



1. C. clavcllosa, Hook. Clavellate Chylocladia. Frond 

 much branched in an irregular or somewhat pinnate manner ; 

 branches and ramuli alternate, distichous; ultimate ramuli 

 often crowded, lanceolato-fusiform, attenuated at base. Hooh. 

 Br. Fl. v. ii. p. 297.— Fucus clavell. Turn. t. 30. E. Bot. 

 t. 1283. 



Sea-shores, rather rare. Bantry ; Miss Hutchins. Kilkee ; W. 

 H. Harvey. Black rocks, Portrush ; Mr. JD. Moore. Very variable 

 in ramification, and best distinguished^ from our native species by its 

 unconstricted frond and slender ramuli. 



* * Ramuli elliptical, rarely somewhat elongated and con- 

 stricted. 



2. C oralis, Hook. Oval-leaved Chijlocladia. Frond fili- 

 form, irregularly dichotomous, naked below, above beset with 

 elliptical, simple (rarely elongated and constricted) ramuli ta- 

 pering at the base ; capsules sphserical, with a pellucid border. 

 Hook. Br. Fl. v. ii. p. 297.— Fucus oralis. Turn. f. 81. E. 

 Rot.t.lU. 



On rocks in the sea, not rare. 4—6 inches high, slightly branched, 

 beset in the upper part with elliptical, rarely elongated ramidi, re- 

 sembling the leaves of a Sedum. 



* # * Frond constricted as if jointed. 



3. C. kaliformis, Hook. Salsola-Uke Chylocladia. Frond 

 subgelatinous, tubular, distantly constricted as if jointed, much 

 and somewhat pinnatedly branched ; branches whorled at the 

 constrictions with catenulate ramuli ; capsules sphserical, with a 

 pellucid border. Hook. Br. Fl. v. ii. p. 298.— Fucus kalifor- 

 mis. Turn. t. 29. E. Bot. t. 640. 



Sea-shores ; particularly fine in Bantry bay ; Miss Hutchins. 



4. C. parvula, Hook. Least Chylocladia. Frond subgela- 

 tinous, slender, irregularly branched in a subdichotomous, 

 straggling manner; constrictions (throughout the frond) nearly 

 equal in length and breadth ; " capsules ovate, cantaining a 

 sphserical mass of wedge-shaped seeds." (Grev.) — Hook. Br. 

 Fl. v. u.p. 298. — Chondria parvula. Grev. Crypt, t. 346. 



Parasitic on the larger Algse. Bantry; Miss Hutchins. Miltown 

 Malbay ; W. H. Harvey. Black rocks, Portrush ; Mr. D. Moore. 



