Zostera.) CXXXVIII. NAIADEA, 177 
specimen very imperfect. This floral leaf is described as saving no 
mina but in the portion I have seen of the original specimen although 
it has generally fallen off there,are still the remains of it attached to 
some of the spikes.—Z. marina, R. Br. Prod. 338? 
Victoria, Po illi È ler. 
T ia. E edi. fine peti ee without fructification 
Belly belong rather to this species than to Z. nana, It remains to be oy cn 
ether the Z. tasmanica be really distinct from the narrow-leaved variety of 
mmon Z. marina, Linn, 
6. CYMODOCEA, Keen. 
(Amphibolis, Agardh.) 
p lowers unisexual, solitary within sheathing bracts, but with the 
racts sometimes several in a cyme. i ale flowers of 
anthers more or less connate by their backs, with 2 parallel 
—Ma 
rooting at the joints, the leafy stems very short or lengthened and 
rect. Leaves ]i 
jth a short sheathi 
mg sheathing scale, 
ws op ents extends over the Old World coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific as well 
Austra Indian and Mediterran i " 
scales, 4 
truncate at the end, with acute angles or teeth . . 1. O. antarctica. 
_ Tounded and ciliate-serrulate atthe end . . . _+ 2. C. ciliata. 
tant, W on short stems, the nodes or scars rather dis- 
rad eee at the base in a sheathing scale. 
Leay, vos tines boa |. ee 
°S 1 to 14 lines broad . 4. C. isoetifolia 2 
l. LET * e -- 
dues tfaretica, Endl. in, Pl. Preise. ii 273.—Rhizome emitting 
nilar} "S, mére branched and more slender than in C. ciliata, but 
"Ue. Y Marked with numerous annular scars of fallen leaves. org 
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