PlifeozoosiioiMiiiv, Spci-matoclinaccir, Spermatoclinus. 387 



— Clarus Sondcr (Liiin;ra XX, p. ()()7) lianc specicm ad Carpo- 

 mitrai)i Cahrcram pertinere contendit. 



Familia XII. SPERMATOCHNACE^E Kjellm. 



SpennatocJinacece K.jcUm. [1890] Hand))ok I, p. 32, Engl. & Prantl Natiirl. 

 Pllanzonnim. 86, p. 233, L)e Toiii Syst. Uehcrs. Fiicoid. 1891, p. 177. 



Frons filifonnis, disco radicali e fibris coalitis constante affixa, 

 regulariter raniosa sparseque piligera, e tubo articulato axiali (cre- 

 scenticl apicali donato) et chlamyde parenchymatica (usque 7-strato- 

 sa) cellularum verticillatim e tubo axiali exorientium ope laxe adhae- 

 rente constituta. 



Sporangia unilocularia lateraliter ad basin liloruni articulatorum, 

 C9espitose aggregatorum, e cellulis superficialibus exorientium evoluta 

 et tunc soros efficientia, obovoidea. Sporangia plurilocularia hucusque 

 ignota. 



SPERMATOCHNUS Kuetz. [1843] in Linnc^a 1843, p. 96, Pliyc. gener. 

 p. oo4, t. 2(j, f. II (Aucalysis), Sp. p. 549 (Etym. sperma semen et 

 chnous lanugo, chnoos tomentum), Reinke Algenfl. p. 66 (ubi am- 

 plissime de structura Iiujus generis peculiari disseritur), Atlas 

 deutscher Meeres. p. 53, t. 33-35, Kjellm. in Engl. & Prantl Na- 

 tiirl. Pflanzenfam. 86. Lief. p. 233, De Toni Syst. Uebers. Fucoid. 

 1891, p. 177, Chordaria.', Stilophora', Striaria^, Confervce sp. 

 auct. veter. — Frons e callo radicali discoideo exsurgens, filifor- 

 mis, cylindraceo-elongata, regulariter et uniformiter ramosa, sparse 

 pilosa, e cellularum serie axiali (crescentia apicali donata) chlamyde 

 parenchymatica 1-7-stratosa (cellulis versus superficiem magnitu- 

 dine decrescentibus) involuta constans; contextus chlamydis dein in 

 parte frondis vetustiore ab axi secedens et cellularum elongatarum 

 verticillatim dispositarum ope cum axi conjunctus et lacunas muco 

 impletas linquens; phieophora in ccllulis assimilantibus numerosa, 

 minuta, disciformia, sporangia unilocularia ad basin filorum arti- 

 cuhitorum e cellulis superficialil)us exorientium ctespitose aggrega- 

 torum lateraliter efformata, in soros conferta, obovata; sporangia 

 plurilocularia ignota. 



1. Spermatochnus paradoxus (Roth) Kuetz. Phyc. gernican. p. 268, 643 

 Sp. p. 549, Tab. Phyc. VIII, t. 18, f. I, Reinke Algenfl. westl. 



