near the base of the branchlets, obovate-elliptical, rauticous, 5-6 lines long, 

 2-3 in diameter. Receptacles simple or forked, torulose, blunt, |— 1 inch 

 long, \\ line in diameter, very abundant. Colour a dark olive-brown, 

 turning black in drying. Substance coriaceous, hard and somewhat brittle 

 when dry. It does not adhere to paper. 



A common littoral species of Bass's Straits, at both sides of 

 the Channel, and on the Islands. It frequently grows in tide- 

 pools, and is then much dwarfed, and apt to become extremely 

 bushy from the enormous development of short crowded rarauli. 

 It is readily known from others of the genus by its robust, 

 club-shaped, and imperfectly constricted, obtuse receptacles. I 

 have not seen any specimens from the west coast. 



Fig. 1. Cystophoka TORULOSA ; a branch, — the natural size. 2. Eeceptacles, 

 and a vesicle ; somewhat magnified. 



