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of them, however, are a little more curved in the central portion than it would 

 imply. 



Fig. 1, pi. 12, is a drawing of an American plant, magnified 160 diameters. 



CCiicuiuis, Ehrb. 



C. oblougum, turgidum, leviter curvum, laeve, diametro 4-7 plo longius, apicibus obtusis. (R.) 



Syn. — C.Cucumis, Eiirenberq, Verbreit. b. 28, IV. F. 28. Rabenhorst, Flora Europ. Alga- 

 rum, Sect. III. p^38. 



■*' Hab. — Xew York ; Ehrenberg. 



Oblong, turgid, slightly curved, smooth, 4-7 times longer than broad, the apex obtuse. 



Remarhs. — I have no knowledge of this species other than that in the above 

 short description, which has been copied from Rabenhorst's works. 



3. Celliilse semilunares, plerumque magis curvatx quam in Sect. 1 et 2, ventre semper linnidse, 

 ventricoso-infiatae. 



3. Cells semilunar, mostly more curved than in Sect. 1 and 2, with the belly always tumid, 



ventricosely inflated. 



C Ehrenbei'gii, Mengh. 



C. fusoideo-semilunare, ventre iuflato, ceterum ut in C. Lunula. (R.) 



Diam.—Lau jif/ = .0029". Long. ,1^/ = .0042." 



Syn. — G. Ehrenbergii, M-EtiQU. Rabexuorst, Flora Europ. Sect. III. p. 131. 



Hab. — Prope Philadelphia. 



" Frond large, stout, about five or six times as long as broad, lunately curved, extremities taper- 

 ing; upper margin very convex, lower concave with a cons2}icuous central inflation; ends 

 broadly rounded ; large granules, numerous, scattered ; fillets several ; e. f. colorless, without 

 striae, central suture not evident. Sporangia orbicular, smooth, placed between the but- 

 slighlly-colinected empty conjugated fronds, the endochrome during the process of conjuga- 

 tion emerging from the opened apex of a short conical extension from each under side of each 

 younger segment (or shorter cone) of each pair of recently divided fronds, the conjugating 

 fronds being produced immediately previously by the self-division of a pair of old fronds — two 

 sporangia being thus the ultimate produce of the two original fronds. L. j'g" ; B. jjg". 

 Archer." Pritchard's Infusoria, p. 748. 



Remark. — Fig. 2, pi. 12, represents a plant of this species magnified 160 dia- 

 meters. 



C. moniliferiim, (Bory) Ehrb. 



C. semilunare, plus minus curvatum, diametro maximo 6-9 plo longius, ventre inflato, utroque 

 polo sensim attenuatum, apicibus achrois obtusis, vesiculis chlorophyllaceis in serie unica 

 longitudinali axili dispositis, in quoque crure 7-10; locello apicali submagno, corpuscula 

 numerosa includente (corpusculum in quoque locello unicum mobile ellipsoideum, magnitudiue 

 linese partem millesimam a;quans, cetera mobilia per totum corporis distributa observavit cl. 

 Perty.) (R.) Species mihiignota. 



i)iam.— 0.0019"— 0.0022". (R.) 



Syn. — C. moniliferum, Rabenhorst, Flora Europ. Algarum, Sect. III. p. 131. 



Hab. — Georgia ; Rhode Island ; Bailey. 

 15 June, 1872. 



