394 Ru-Floridez, Sphaérocoecés, Sphsrococeiis. 
tereti, sursum attenuata, decomposite subdisticho-ramosa, ramis et 
praesertim ramulis basi attenuatis. 
Hab. in sinu «Port Adelaide» dicto Nov:e Hiollandies australis. 
— (QOallus radicalis ignotus. Frondes pedales et ultra, basi crassi- 
tiem penns eorvinz :equantes, sursum attenuatse, ubique teretes, 
subdistiche decomposito-ramosissim:z. Rami plus minus approxi- 
mati, inferne nudi vel ramulis filiformibus simplicibus furcatisve 
obsessi, superne dense ramulosi, ramulis subramellosis, plerumque 
basi evidenter attenuatis. Color frondis badio-purpurascens. Fru- 
ctus ignoti. 
Species a genere removend». 
10. Phacelocarpus australis (Sond.) J. Ag. Sp. II, p. 649 est Sfeno- 
cladia Sonderiana J. Ag. 
Subfamilia II. SPHASROCOCCE/E Schmitz. 
Splwerococcec Schmitz [1889] Syst. Uebers. Florid. p. 9, Sehm. et Hauptfl. in 
Engl. & Prantl Natürl. Pflanzenfam. p. 386. 
Frons teres aut ancipiti-plana, plerumque furcato-ramosa, non- 
nunquam lateraliter prolifera; structura fere omnino parenchyma- 
tica. Cystocarpia in ramulis propriis brevibus evoluta, acrogena, poro 
laterali (obliquo) demum aperta. Tetrasporangia per frondis superfi- 
ciem sparsa aut in apicibus ramorum nematheciose incrassatis co- 
adnata, zonatim divisa. 
Conspectus generum. 
Spharococcus (Stackh.) Grev. — Frons ancipiti-plana, fureata aut lateraliter 
ramosa. Tetrasporangia per frondem sparsa et immersa, sparsa. 
Heringia J. Av. — Frons teretiuscula aut paullum compressa, plerumque fur- 
catim ramosa. Tetrasporangia in apicibus ramorum eireumceirea stipata. 
SPH/EROCOCCUS Stackh. [1797] Ner. brit, p. XXIV (quoad nomen) 
(Etym. spha?ra sphsxra et coccos granum), Kuetz. Sp. p. 772 (pro 
minima parte), Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 137, J. Ag. Sp. II, p. 642 (exel. 
sp.) Epicr. p. 442, Ardiss. Phyc. Medit, I, p. 246, Iihynchococcus 
Kuetz. (1842] Phyc. gener. p. 390, Sp. (1849), p. 754. — Frons 
membranaceo-cartilaginea, teretiuscula aut anceps, immerse costa- 
ta, tripliei strato constituta: costa a tubo centrali, filis elongatis 
articulatis dense stipato, constante; strato intermedio cellulis ro- 
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