En-Floridere, Grateloupiacese, Cryptonemia. 1607 



rariiis 1-2, imniorsa,, in altcriitra pa<,nna prominontia, niicleo sim- 

 plici, carposporis numorosis, miiiutissimis, pirifonnibus, membrana 

 hyalina cinctis. Color o rosoo piirpurascens. Substantia momhra- 

 naceo-cartila.^dnea. -Fam ciariis .]. A;,^ar<iii spociom Sondoriaiiain ciim 

 Crjiploncmia rigida Harv. comparandam essc consuit, hoc modo 

 airinitatem eximie suadons. 

 r.. Carpopeltis? multicornis (Kuetz.), Cryptonemia mrdlicornis Sond. 

 Alg. Trop. Austral. p. ()3, Gelidiam, multicorne Kuetz. Tab. Piiyc. 

 XVIII (1868) p. 22, t. 66, f. a-d. — Fronde mediocri, complanata, 

 stipite elongato, basi diviso, suporno irrogulariter et dense pinnato- 

 multifido, apicibus Innc latiorilnis lobulatis, illinc angustissime 

 fiircato-ramellosis, omnibus denso adproximatis. 



Hah. ad oras Nova3 Calodonise (Vieilla.rd). — H;ec species, 

 obsorvante claro Sonder, differt a Carpopellide capilellata (Sond.) 

 Schmitz ramificationo densiore, ramulis latoralibus subulatis crebris 

 subcrispatis non dentatis nec ciliatis et costa in ramis deficiente. 



CRYPTONEMIA .1. Ag. [1842J Alg. med. p. 100, Sp. II, p. 224, Epicr. 

 p. 160 (Etym. cryptos absconditus et nema filum), Berth. Crypton. 

 pag. 20, Ardiss. Phyc. Medit. I, pag. 158, Hauck Meeresalgen 

 pag. 130, Engl. & Prantl Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. (1897) p. 514, Euhy- 

 men>w, Phyliophorcu, Spha'.rococci, Fuci, Rhodymenia' sp. auct. 

 — Frons plana, chartacea, sa^pe caulescens, varie divisa aut pro- 

 lificationibus ramosa, stratis fere tribus contexta, interiore filis 

 elongatis ramosis dense intertextis, intermedio cellulis rotundatis, 

 superficiem versus minoribus stratum exterius corticale forman- 

 tibus. Cystocarpia in phyllis minoribus subimmersa, in alterutra 

 pagina subprominula, carpostomio aperta, nucleum adparontor sim- 

 plicem, ambitu definitum foventia; nucleus ad fila interiora sus- 

 pensus, subsphgericus, intra lobos obconicos a puncto basali radian- 

 tos, arcte conniventes carposporas plurimas rotundato-angulatas 

 sine ordine conspicuo conglobatas et quasi muco cohibitas continens. 

 Tetrasporangia in sporophyllis propriis strato subnemathocioso 

 immersa, oblonga, cruciatim divisa. 



Obs. Sequentia de genere docet clarus J. Agardh. Frondes plan?e 

 et chartaceo-membranace;o, stipitatte, stipite in caulem plus minus 

 ramosuin sensim mutato, oninino fere enerves aut caule in costam 

 unicam pluresve transeunte costata', costa evanescente aut fere ad 

 apicem prolongata, sinuoso-dichotomre aut prolificationibus a costa 

 vol margino l;oso pullulantibus ramosio, margino integerrim;o aut 



