Eu-Floridese, Grateloupiacese, Corynomorpha. 1585 



chotomo-fasti^Matis monilifonniltus. Cystocarpia in apiciljus spon- 

 giose intumescentibus nematliecioideis provenientia, miiiutissinui, 

 omnino immersa, plurima adproximata, in cryptis stepe pluriseria- 

 tis inter fila verticalia excavatis et secedentibus fiiis apertis nu- 

 cleum adparenter simplicem, strato circumnucleari parum evoluto 

 cinctum, foventia; nucleus a plexu filorum sensim transmutato 

 ortus, cellulis matricalibus pluril)us certo ordine vix dispositis, 

 demum carposporas plurimas, minutas, rotundato-angulatas, gelatina 

 ambiente sine ordine conspicuo coliibitas continens. Tetrasporan- 

 gia liucusque ignota. 



1. Corynomorpha prismatica J. Ag. Bidr, p. 4, Epicr. p. 143, Acroti/- 0493 

 lus prismaticus J. Ag. Sp. II, p. 193, Dumontia prismatica J. 

 Ag. Symb. 1, p. 193, Gymnophkea prisrnatica Kuetz. Sp. p. 711 

 Tab. Phyc. XVI, tab. 58, fig. a-f (an [in mari Austrahisico] loci 

 exacta indicatione ?). — Fronde simplicissima, hic illic strangulato- 

 prolifera, prismatico 3-4-quetra. 



Hab. in mari Indico ad oras Indostanias (Hb. Ag.\rdh). — 

 Frondes a basi scutata plures gregarise surgunt, penna3 corvinie 

 crassitiem aequantes, simplicissimte, nunc distanter strangulatse, 

 a strictura per frondem similem continuatte, acutius 3-4-quetra^, 

 apice obtuso. Color purpurascens. Stratum interius sat densum, 

 acido vero superfusum expansum et structuram generis monstrans; 

 stratum exterius filis moniliformibus dense adproximatis, inferne 

 dichotomis, constat. Apex frondis fertilis clavatus, teretiusculus. 

 Nescio qua de causa, nisi errore schedularum, a claro Kuetzing 

 in Tab. Phyc. XVI, pag. 21 pro Gymnophloea prismatica quoad 

 locum mare Australasicum indicetur, dum in Sp. Algar. pag. 711, 

 mare Indicum orientale exhibitur. 



2. Corynomorpha clavata (Harv.) J. Ag. Bidr. p. 4, Epicr. pag. 143, 2494 

 Acrotylus clavalus Harv. Nereis Bor. Amer. II, p. 196. — Fronde 

 simplicissima furcatave, clavata, hic illic strangulato-prolifera, pro- 

 lificationibus nunc geminis, singulis inflatis clavLeformibus sensim 



in stipitem angustatis. 



Hab. ad oras Floridte pr. « Key West » (Harvey). — Callus 

 radicalis parvus, discoideus. Stipes set« porcinae crassitiem metiens, 

 5-12 millim. longus, filiformis, in collarium incrassatum abiens, e 

 cujus centro frons egreditur circitor 4,5 cm. longa, clavgeformis, 

 apice incrassata ac obtusa teres, in sicco prismatica contracta (uda 



