124 Cyclosporiiice, Sargassacese, Turbinaria. 



foliis delapsis confluimt, paniculam longam pulcherrimam forman- 

 tes. Cryptostomata conspicua nulla. Color e castaneo nigrescens. 



Species a genere exclusa 

 8. Carpophylium serratum Suhr, teste cl. J. Ag. Sp. I, p. 265, est 

 Vidalke species, ergo ad Florideas pertinet. 



Genus dubium. 

 Contarinia Endl. et Dies. [1845] in Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 289, J. Ag. 

 Sp. I, p. 261, non Zanardini [1843] quod genus homonymum ad Flo- 

 rideas pertinet, Oerstedtia Trev. [1848], De Toni Syst. Uebers. 

 Fucoid. 1891, p. 174. — Frons plana, pinnatifida, pinnis alternis 

 ol)tusis indivisis. Vesiculse nullse. Receptacuhi subelevata in ramu- 

 lis axillaribus planis marginalia, pedunculis fascicuhitis, subdicho- 

 tome racemoso-ramosis insidentia. Scaphidia tuberculiformia lon- 

 gitudinaliter pluriseriata, ostiolo hiantia. 



1. Contarinia australis Endl. et Dies. in Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 289, J. Ag. 206 

 Sp. I, p. 264, Kuotz. Sp. p. 593. 



Hal). ad portum Natalense Africse (Gueinzius). — Frondis frag- 

 mentum bipedale, 9-10 millim. (4"') latum, planum, enerve, ri- 

 gide coriaceum, subflexuosum, pinnatum. Pinnae frondi conformes, 

 alternantes, pollicem dissitte, oblongse obtusse v. obtusissimse, basi 

 angustat^e, 2-4,5 cm. (1-2") longae, 8,5 millim. (4'") latae, nonnulla) 

 ad apiculum obtusum redactae. Ramuli axillares, e basi pinn?e na- 

 scentes, elliptici, obtusi, basi stipitatim angustati, ceterum plani, 

 nempe pinnis contrarie compressi, circ. 1,5-2,5 cm. (6"'-l") longi, 

 4-6,5 millim. (2-3'") lati, juxta utrumque marginem per omncm 

 longitudinem recep taculorum pedunculis fasciculatis onusti. Color 

 in sicco olivaceo-niger. Hsec species videtur proxima Carpophyllo 

 scalari Suhr. 



TURBINARIA Lamour. [1825] Dict. Class. Tom. VII, pag. 71 (Etym. 

 ttirbo, inis), Bory Voy. Coqu. p. 116, Grev. Synops. p. XXXII. Kuotz. 

 Phyc. gen. p. 363, Sp. p. 621, J. Ag. Sp. I, p. 265, E. S. Barton Syst. 

 struct. account of Turb. 1891, p. 216 et seq., Sargassi et Fuci sp. 

 — Frons, evolutione axillari, ramosa, radice flbrosa cauleque simplici 

 ramosove instructa, vcsiculas et receptacula ut organa discrcta ge- 

 rens, foliis cum vesiculis confluentibus. Folia pctiolo tereti aut trique- 

 tro aut trialato intorduin in vcsiculam intumosconte laminam pelta- 

 tam trl(iuotnun vol orl^icularcin sustinonto. Receptacula ut organa 



