130 SUPPLEMENT. 



Whether a distinct species or a mere variety of I. micans remains to be shewn, when 

 some competent observer On the Pacific Coast shall have properly examined the several 

 reputed species of this most troublesome genus. If we admit more than one species it 

 is difficult to refuse admission to many, the forms are so varied. The present is, at 

 least, a well-marked variety. 



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4. Halosaccion dumontioides ; stem short, filiform, emitting many crowded, tubular, 

 membranaceous, long branches, which are quite simple, destitute of ramenta, and taper 

 much to the base and apex. 



Hab. Northumberland Sound, Queen's Channel, lat. 76° N., Dv. Lyali. (v. s. in 

 Herb. T.C.D.) 



Stem 1-3 inches long, simple or forked, filiform, about twice as thick as hog's bristle, 

 emitting throughout its length, and directed towards all sides, numerous crowded, perfectly 

 simple branches. Branches two feet long, more than quarter inch wide in the middle, 

 cylindrical for their greater extent, but attenuated and fusiform to the base, and tapering 

 at the extremity to an acute point, hollow, destitute of rameuta, smooth and glossy, 

 formed of a very thin membrane. Colour a brownish pinky-red, partly discharged in 

 fresh water. Cellular structure very dense. 



I have some hesitation in proposing this as a species distinct from H. ramentaceum ; 

 but if not a good species, it is at least a strongly marked variety, and has so much the 

 external aspect of Dumontia Jiliformis, that until I had submitted a section to the 

 microscope, I supposed I had before me a very luxuriant specimen of that plant. The 

 microscopic structure of the membrane is that proper to Halosaccion (section Halocoelia), 

 but is not easy to see, as the collapsed cells do not readily expand on reimmersion of 

 the dried frond. The substance is much softer and more membi-anous than in H. ra- 

 mentaceimi, and in drying the branches adhere much more strongly to paper. Dr. Lyall 

 brought home several fine specimens. 



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16.* Callithamnion tenue ; filaments tufted, ultra-capillary, irregularly much 

 branched, diffuse, flexuous, the branches and their divisions very generally secund, 

 springing from the middle of the internodes; ramuli few and distant, patent, filiform, 

 beset toward the attenuated apices with whorls of minute, byssoid fibres ; articulations 

 cylindrical, those of the branches 4-6 times, those of the ramuli 3-4 times -as long as 

 broad, and gradually shorter towards the extremities, G'riffithsia tenuis, Ag. Sp. Aly. 

 p. 13. J. Ag. Sp. Alg. 2, p. 84. Kutz. Sp. Aly p. G61. 



Hab. Beesley's Point, New Jersey, Mr. Samuel Ashmead. (v. s. in Plerb. T.C.D.) 



Filaments 3-4 inches long, somewhat tliicker than human hair, loosely tufted, 

 flexuous, very irregularly branched, the ramification on a lateral, not a dichotomous 



