Kti-Fl()i'i(Ica% ruli(liea\ 143 



adest, ('iiictus }»luril)us s(M-iel)Us niinoruui, (jui poriphcriaui vorsus 

 ui;i,unilu(liu(j scusiiu (liuiiuu.iutur. llahitu Hypneam spineUam ita 

 aMuulatur, ut uxcoi^to coloro ohscurioro vix di^^uoscatur : dissoctus 

 structuraui offert diversaui. ]<]tiaui cum Gelidio corneo var. crinaii 

 couiparaudus, rauiulis acutis vero facilius distiuctus. Structura Rlio- 

 doiueleis uiultis couveuit, tetrasporaugiis sparsis ab iiis abludous. 

 Ita fere Harvey 1. c. Kuetzing, qui specimen vidit, geueri Caulacau- 

 tho speciem jam currente anno 1849 adscripsit, nullo adposito si- 

 giio diihii, ([uaui opinionom clarissimus J. Agardli, cystocarpiis exa- 

 miuatis (Florid. AIorpJKd. 1S7!), t. XXXI, f. 8-9! plaue confirma it. 



o. Caulacanthus compressus Harv. New Algoe in Proceed. Amer. Acad. 2(j7 

 vol. IV (1859), p. 331, n. 27, J. Ag. Epicr. p. 581 (uomen), De Toni 

 Phycete Japon. nova' (1895), p. 21, n. 14. — Fronde pusilla, dicho- 

 tomo-uuiltifida, fastigiata, laciniis primariis sursum latioribus com- 

 pressis(|ue, stipite ramulis^iue teretibus, axillis rotundatis, ranuilis 

 spiuceformibus sparsis patentibus simplicibus ramosisve. 



Ilah. in mari japonico ad insulas Liuceas anglice «Loo-Ciioo» 

 dictas (C. Wright). — Forsan huc accedit Caulacanthas fa.stigiattts 

 Kuetz. ex iusula Formosa proveuiens, teste cl. Marteus Tange v. 

 Ost-Asien p. 132. Cfr. ceterum inter syuonyma Caidacanthi asta- 

 tati (Mert.) Kuetz. 



4. Caulacanthus horridulus Mout. Fl. Ciiil. VHI, p. 304, t. 15, f. 4, ^«s 

 Syll. p. 415, n. 1473, Kuetz. Tab. Phyc XVIII, t. 9, J. Ag. Epicr. 

 p. 580. — Fronde filiformi, sicca compressa, fragilissima,, inforne lon- 

 gius uuda, superne intricato-ramosa, ramis spinescentibus, ramulis 

 extreuus cougestis tenuissime myriacauthis implexisque, fertilibus 

 succoso-inilatis; tetrasporangiis roseis, clavato-oblongis, tandem zo- 

 uatim divisis, in ramulis antepa^nultimis inflato-sparsis. 



Ilah. ad oras Cliiloenses (Gay). — Color roseo-purpureus. Au a 

 Caulacantho ustulato (Mert.) Kuetz. sat diversa species?. 



Subfamilia V. GELIDIE/E (Kuetz.) Schm. 



GelkUe<e Kiietz. [1843] in Linnaea XVII, p. 103, Pliyc. gener. p. 390 ex parte, 

 J. Ag-. [1851] Sp. II, p. 462!, [1876] Epicr. p. 543 excl. gen. Wi(rdcmannia, 

 Schmitz [1^89] Syst. Uebers. Florid. p. 5. 



Frons axi centrali cortice deuso continuo cincto iustructa.', tilis 

 corticalibus verticillatim dispositis; cellula apicalis axis septo hori- 

 zontali ab inferiore contiiJiia discreta. 



