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CJtondriis crispus (L.) Stackh. 



Syxoxymy aisd Literature : 



Harvey, W. H., Pliycologia Britaunica. 1846-1851. 



vSyiiopsis 197 (plate 63). A full account of the 



Syuonyiny will be fouud here. 

 Hauck, ¥., Die Meeresalgen Deutschlaiuls uud Oester- 



reichs, 1885, p. 134. 



Illu.stratioxs : 



Harvey, loc. cit., plate 63 (Syu. 197): general habit of a 

 broad and a narrow form ; transverse and longitu- 

 dinal sections of the stem ; general view and section 

 of nemathecia. 



Hauck, loc. cit. p. 134, tig. 53 : habit of plant with 

 cystocarpia and nemathecia, with sections of both. 



Murray, G., Introduction 'to the study of seaweeds. 1895. 

 Plate VI., fig. 3. 



Wille, N., Entwickelungsgeschichte der physiologischen 

 Gewebesysteme bei einigen Florideen. 1887. 

 ^^ov. Act. Leop.-Garol. Vol. 52, n. 2. Plate VII. 

 fig. 70, 71. Anatomical details. 



EXSICCATA : 



Xearly every published collection of dried marine algse 

 contains specimens of this species, so that it is 

 unnecessary to quote here a lengthy list. 



Remarks. — The Synonymy of Chondrus crisjjus is very 

 straightforward. Harvey refers to certain repro- 

 ductive organs, which he calls " prominent tubercles 

 (nemathecia)," and which are certainly not 

 nemathecia in our sense. Nothing in Chondrus 

 crispus, in fact, corresponds to these prominent 

 tubercles. Murray refers to the spermatia as 

 polliuoids. I see no reason why the term sperma- 

 tium should be replaced by pollinoid, especially as 



