En-Flori(lete, l\,liizo])liylliclaoea5, Contarinia. 1679 



diculis (loinisHis arctc adj^lutiiiata, (lcconiposito-raniosa, raniifica- 

 tione intcr dichotonniin ct pinnatani intcrnicdia. Scgnicnta lincaria, 

 distantcr et nullo ordinc dcntibus obtusiuscnlis iiucqualia, apico 

 obtusa dentata, l-;2 luiliini. hita, costa in exsiccata parum notabili 

 percursa, in rcccnti (;t madcfacta magis ancipite haiid couspicua. 

 Nemathecia in media iv.uione seginentoruin disposita. Color roseo- 

 coccineus. Substantia incnibranacea. 



Specie.s a genere excludendee. 



2. Rhizophyllis? Bangii (Horn ) .1. Ag. Sp. II, p. 3J3, l^:picr. p. 352, 

 est Phyllophora P.a,ugii. (Ilorn.) Jens. 



3. Rhizophyllis Corallinae Marteus Preuss. Exped. u. Ost-Asien, Tange, 

 p. 119, t VIII, f. 1 est Herpochondria Corallincv (Mart.) Falk. 



4. Rhizophyllis serpens Dc Not ct Dufour Elenco Alg. Lig. (1864) 

 n. 114 est Dipterosiphonia? rigens (Schousb.) Falk. 



CONTARINIA Zanard. [1813] Saggio class. Fic. p. 45 (Etyin. a claro 

 naturalista veneto Nicolao Contarini) J. Ag. Sp. Algar. IT, p. 493, 

 Epicr. p. 378, Ardiss. Phyc. Medit. I, p. 330, Hauck Meeresalgen 

 pag. 31, Engl. & Prantl Naturl. Pflauzenfam. (1897) pag. 531. 

 — Frons plana, crustacea, margine rotundata aut irregulariter lo- 

 bata, lobis confluentibus, horizontaliter expansa, inferiore pagina 

 adnata, stratis duobus contexta: strato inferiore decumbente, cel- 

 lulis in flla horizontaliter et subflabellatim radiantia conjuuctis, 

 superiore filis verticalibus articulatis dichotomis niuco fluido obval- 

 latis constituto. Tetrasporangia in soros verruciformi-complanatos 

 traiisforinatione ranii orta, in filo terminalia, obovata, cruciatim 

 (oblique) quadridivisa, paraphysibus nnllis. 



Obs. Frondes tenuissimse, rosocC, supra Spongias et Cjjstosciras 

 expansce. Stratuni horizontale adest; cellula3 hoc constituentes, sub 

 parte fertili rotundatie, extrorsum obovata^ subfiabellatim radiantes. 

 Ab hoc strato fila verticalia (fragilissima) moniliformia proveniuut, 

 dichotomiis ad articulos inferiores ellipsoideos densis decomposita, 

 ut subdividuntur sensim tenuiora, apicibus indivisis prolongatis 

 tenuissimis, articulis magis cylindraceis. Articuli inferiores diametro 

 «quales, superiores ses^iui-triplo longiores. Tetrasporaugia ex apice 

 fili transformata sed pedicello sterili longiori aut breviori suffulta 

 et hinc prope basin aut apices filorum sita, clavato-obovata, intra 

 perisporium hyalinum irregulariter cruciatim divisa, Sec. J. Agardh 



