MifoozoosporinaB, Sporochnaccro, Nereia. 37^ 



Familia XI. SPOROCHNACEiE (Reichb.) Decne 



Spo)'oc]inacc(C Reiclienb. [1828] Conf. p. 28 ex parte {Sporodin&e), Dccaisnc 

 [1842] in Ann. Sc. Nat., Bot., 2^"ie serie, Tome XVII, p. 330 {SporoHuio/jlea'), 

 De Toni Syst. Uebers. Fucoid. 1891, p. 176, Kjellra. iii E. & P. Nat Pllanzen- 

 fam. 86. Lief. pag. 236, non Sporochnacecc Harv. [1852] Ner. bor. Amer. 

 I, p. 73, 



Sporoclmoklece Harv. [1838] Gen. sonth Afric. pl. p. 395. 



Sporocluiidce Lindl. [1847] Veg. Kingd. p. 22 excl. Desniaresfla, non Sporochni- 

 dece Reichb. [1841] Nomencl. p. 21. 



Thallus filiformis aut auguste fasciajformis, deorsum parencliy- 

 maticus, sursuni e cellulis liberis penicillos efficientibus constitutus ; 

 punctum vegetativum e grege cellularum ad basia penicilli termina- 

 lis sito constans; crescentia trichotliallica. 



Sporangia (unilocularia tantum hucusque cognita) parva, obovata 

 vel ellipsoidea vel ellipsoideo-cylindracea. 



Conspectus generum. 



A. Organa sporangifera soros sparsos efflcientia. 

 Nereia Zanard- — Paraphyses simplices. 



B. Organa sporangifera regiones thalli deliiiitas aiinulatim cingentia. 

 t Sub apice frondis exorientia. 



Bellotia Harv. — Thallus umbellatim ramosus, Eriophori habitum pr;ebens. 

 Perithalia ,1. Ag. — Tliallus racemose ramosus, ramis quasi conformibus. 

 Encijotlialla Harv. — Tliallus racemose ramosus, ramis dimori)liis et longio- 



ribus et brevioribus (ramulis)= 

 -f-J- Immediate sub puncto vegetationis exorientia. 

 Sporochnus Ag. — Regiones thalli fertiles cylindraisefo, globosae vel clavatre. 

 Carpomitra Kuetz. — Regiones thalli fertiles breviter conoidece aut mitrae- 



formes. 



NEREIA Zanard. [1845] in Diario VII. Congr. sc. ital. in Napoli p. 121, 

 Giorn. bot. ital. 1846, p. 41, Icon. phyc. adriat. I, p. G7, t. XVII 

 (Etym. Nereia, dea mithologica maris), Ardiss. Phyc. Med. II, 

 p. 130, De Toni & Levi FI. Alg. Ven. II, p. 101, De Toni Syst. 

 Uebers. Fucoid. 1801, p. 176, Kjelhn. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. 

 Pflanzenfam. 86, p. 238, Sporochni, Desmaresticv sp. auct., Clado- 

 thele Kuetz. [1849] Sp. p. 568, [non Hook. f. et Harv. [1845] in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. 1845, p. 293, quod genus idem ac Stictyosiphon Kuetz.] 

 — Frons filiformis, solida, ramosa, apicibus omnil)us penicillo filo- 



