Ku-I<"l(iri(li\'r, Cys'ocloni(M>, T;inii.-i'ella. 3?3 



nilis exiinic toiicra, adiiltioris satis firnia. Color coccinoiis, (loinurn 

 purpurous. 



TURNERELLA Sclnnitz [1889] Syst. Uol)ors. Florid. (in Flora, 1889, 

 Hcft 5, p. 7 [noiiicn] (Etym. ab illustri pliycologo D. Tuuner, Historia"! 

 Fucorum auctore), Rosenv. Grocnl. Havalj^or (1893) p. 814, Schm. et 

 Hauptn. in Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflanzcnfa,in. 142 (189G) p. 371 

 fig. 223 C, Callymenim et Schizymenicv sp. auct. — Frons niein- 

 branacea, indivisa aut varie lobata, ■ subgelatinosa vel chartacea, 

 stratum meduUare fifis tenuioribus laxe coha?rentibus et rhizoideis 

 analogis intermixtis contextum, stratum corticale c cellulis inte- 

 rioribus majoribus laxeque cohibitis, extcrioribus superficicm ver- 

 sus sensim minoribus et arctius concretis conflatnm; corticis pars 

 interior rliizoidcis articulatis demum numcrosioribus percursa, ex- 

 terior cellulis interduni anticUni?e scriatis conspicua: ccUukTe glan- 

 duHn<'ie magis minusve numerosa) cortici immersa?. Cystocarpia 

 sparsa, frondi immersa, utrinque paruni aut mininie prominula, 

 carpostomio demum apcrta; plcxus circumnuclearis nulhis; gonimo- 

 blastns (cortici interiori rliizoideis condcnscito imraersus) ccHulam 

 parvam centralem praebens, e cujus parte infcriorc complurcs rami 

 paniculatiin ramosi dense congesti et pauca fila stcrilia inter se 

 inchidcntcs undique cxtrorsum raihantcs cxeunt; apices ramorum 

 horum cymatim ramosi in articulis suprcmis carposporas singuhis 

 formant; carpospone maturne in peripherica nuclei parte sine or- 

 dine aggregatne. 



1. Turnerella Mertensiana (Post. ct Rupr.) Schmitz Syst. Uebers. 628 

 i''lorJd. (1889), p. 7, Iridcua Mertcmiana Post. ct Rupr. Illustr. 

 Alg. p. 18, t. 33, Kuetz. Sp. p. 727, Schizymenia Mertcnsiana 

 J. Ag. Sp. H, p. 174, Epicr. p. 121. — Fronde sessili, umbilicata, 

 quoquoversum expansa, latissima, undulato-plicata, sinuosa; cysto- 

 carpiis per totam fron;lcm (?) ;eque sparsis. 



Hah. in oceano Pacifico borcali ad oras Camciatcse (Luetke). 

 — Frondes amplse, ssepe 60 cm. et ultra expansse, ccntro umbili- 

 cato afhxse ct ita omnino sessiles, juniores forsan reniformes, quo- 

 quoversum extenste, ambitu rotundato-plicatse ct sinuos», immo 

 lobatse, lobis magnis obtusis. Cystocarpia magnitudine ferc illoruin 

 Bilsea3 edulis, dcnse sparsa. Color ferc sanguineus aut sordide car- 

 ueus, frondis senilis immo fuscescens. Substantia carnosa, algee 

 exsiccatEe membranacea, pergamcna. 



