Eu-Florideo, Melanthaliez, Sarcodia. 413 
utraque pagina hemispherice prominentia, mamillata, carpostomio 
demum pertusa, carposporas rotundatas (evolutione basipetà ortas) 
in filis moniliformibus pluriseriatas e placentà basali rhizoidibus 
copiosis dense percursà radiantibus evolutas foventia. Tetrasporan- 
gia hucusque ignota. 
1. Chondrymenia lobata (Menegh.) Zanard. Icon. phyc. Adriat. I, p. 65, 76: 
t. VI, J. Ag. Epicr. p. 430, Hauck Meeresalgen p. 184, f. 79, Ar- 
diss. Phyc. Medit. I, p. 249, Halymenia lobata Menegh. in Atti 
Congr. Firenze 1841, p. 11, Kuetz. Sp. p. 716, J. Ag. Sp. II, p. 207. 
— Fronde orbiculari, estipitata, multifida, segmentis dilatato-rotun- 
datis, margine proliferis. 
Hab. in Zoophytis ete. crescens in mari Adriatico ad oras Dal- 
matie (VrpovicH); in mari Tyrrheno in sinu Calaritano (ProcoxE). 
— Frons callo radicali minuto disciformi matricibus adfixa, esti- 
pitata, mox quoquoversum expansa, ambitu rotundata, circiter 8 cm. 
diam. metiens, 900—500 x. crassa, in lobos margine raro integros at 
sepius dentatos aut crenatos vel proliferos divisa, hinc inde non- 
nunquam pertusa. Color frondis atro-purpureus, exsiccatione ni- 
grescens. Substantia carnosa. Specimina exsiccata charts» non ad- 
h:ierent. 
SARCODIA J. Ag. [1852] Sp. II, p. 622, Epicr. p. 430 (Etym. sarz, 
Sarcos, caro), Schm. et Hauptfl. in Engl. & Prantl Natürl. Pflanzen- 
fam. p. 389, RAhodomenice et Rhodophyllidis sp. — Frons plana, 
carnoso-membranacea, repetite dichotoma segmentisque marginali- 
bus prolifera, triplici strato contexta: intimo cellulis filiformibus 
laxe intertextis; intermedio cellulis rotundato-angulatis, superficiem 
versus minoribus; corticali cellulis verticalibus constituto. Cysto- 
carpia intra pericarpium elevatum cellulosum, demum carpostomio 
apertum, nucleum simplicem (nonnunquam binum) foventia; pla- 
centa magna elevata cellulis radiantibus contexta, a tota superficie 
fila carposporifera quoquoversum radiantia, inferne cylindracea fa- 
scieulata, superne subclavata invicem libera emittens; carpospor:e 
in articulis supremis obovatis inferioribusque sensim maturescen- 
tibus subseriate oblongo-rotundatz. Tetrasporangia infra frondis 
stratum corticale vix mutatum evoluta, sparsa, zonatim divisa. 
Obs. Frondes plan:se, roseo-coccines, carnoss, crassi, exsicca- 
tione cartilaginee, cuneato-flabellatz:e, dichotomiis repetitis decom- 
positae, margine nud:z segmentisve conformibus minoribus parce 
