Ser. Melanosperme^. Fam. Fucacece. 



Plate LXXVI. 



CYSTOPHORA SPARTIOIDES, /. 47. 



Gen. Char. Root scutate. Frond piimately decompound, dendroid, with 

 a distinct stem, branches, and ramuliform leaves. Vesicles stipitate, 

 simple, rarely absent. Receptacles pod-like, torulose or moniliforra, 

 developed in the ramuli. Scajjiddia hermaphrodite. Spores obovoid. 

 — Cystophoua (/. Ag.), from Kvara, a Madder, and ^opea), to hear. 



Radix sctitata. Frons pbmatim decompos'da, dendroidea, caide propria, ramis 

 foliisque ramtdiformihus donata. Vesicida stipitutce, simpHces, raro dejici- 

 entes. Receptacula siliqiKeformia, torulosa v. tiodidosa, apice ramulorum evo- 

 luta. Scafplddia hermaphrodita. 



Cystophora spartioides ; stem flat, decompound, pinnate ; pinnse spring- 

 ing from the sharp edge of the stem, erecto-patent ; pinnules alternate, 

 compressed, nodulose below, decompound above ; the ultimate seg- 

 ments filiform, dichotomo-multifid, ending in slender, moniiiform, at- 

 tenuated receptacles ; vesicles none. 



C. spartioides ; ca/de piano decomposito-pinnato ; ramis a margine caidis egre- 

 dientihus erecto-patentibus ; pinnidis alternis compressis infra nodidosis nu- 

 disque snrsum decompositis ; laciniis tdtimis fdiformibus tenuibiis dicJiotomo- 

 panicidatis in receptacida moniliformia longe attenuata abeuntibus ; vesiculis 

 nullis. 



Cystophora spartioides, ./. Ag. Sp. Alg. v. 1. p. 244. Harv. Alg. Austr. 

 Exsic. n. 8. 



Phyllotricha spartioides, Aresch. in Act. Zips. ser. 3. v. 1. p. 33. 



Blossevillea spartioides, Bne. Kiitz. Sp. Alg. p. 629. 



Cystoseira spartioides, Ag. Sp. Alg. v. 1. p. Tl ; Syst. p. 294. 



Pucus spartioides. Turn. Hist. t. 232. 



Hab, Shores of New Holland, R. Broivn. Port Pairy, W. H. H. George- 

 town, Tasmania, E. Gunn. Derwent, Mr. Oldjield. 

 Geogr. Distr. South coast of Austraha, and Tasmania. 



Descr. Roots conical, an inch or more across. Stems six feet long or sometimes 

 much more, quite simple, preserving throughout a breadth of nearly half an 

 inch, strongly compressed and two-edged, nearly flat, but somewhat thickened 

 in the middle, set throughout their whole extent, at intervals of about an inch 

 or an inch and a half, with alternate branches or pinnae. Pintue springing 

 from the knife-like edge of the stem, spreading, but curved upwards, hnear- 

 lanceolate in outline, and from two to three feet in length, piano-compressed 

 like the stem, tapering to each end, nearly a quarter of an inch wide, regu- 

 larly set with alternate pinnules. Pinnules one to two inches long, as thick 



