Ser. Melanospekme;e. Fam. Fucacece. 



Plate CXXIIL 



CYSTOPIIORA TORULOSA, /. a^. 



Gen. Char. Root scutate. Fmicl pinnately decompound, dendroid, with 

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

 snnple, rarely absent. Receptacles pod-like, torulose or monihform, 

 developed in the ramuli. Scaphidia hermaphrodite. Spores obovoid. 

 — Cystophora (/. A(j), from /cvarc^, a bladder, and (jjopeco, to bear. 



Badix scutata. Irons pinnathn decowposita, dendroidea, caule proprio, ramis 

 folusqiie ramtdiforviibns donata. Vesicidce stipitatce, simplices, raro defici- 

 entes. Receptacula siliqiKpformia, torulosa v. nodulosa, apice ramulorum evo- 

 luta. Scaphidia hermaphrodita. 



Cystophoea torulosa; stem compressed, subsimple, alternately pinnate; 

 pinnse issuing from the flattened side of the stem, bent downwards at 

 their insertion, short ; pinnules crowded, subfasciculate, subsimple, 

 converted into torulose, club-shaped receptacles ; vesicles roundish- 

 elliptical. 



C. torulosa ; caule compresso simpliciuscido alterne pinmto ; pinnis a latere 

 piano cauhs egredientibus retrofractis ; pinnulis subfasciculatim approximatis 

 simplicmsculis m receptacula clavaformia torulosa abeuntibus; vesiculis spluB- 

 7'ico-ellipsoideis. J. Ag. 



Cystophora torulosa, J. Ag. Sp. Alg. p. 243. Harv, in Hook. M. K Zeal. 

 V. 2. p. 314 ; Rook. FL Tasm. v. 2. p. 283. 



Blossevillea torulosa, Dene. Arch. Mus. v. 11. p. 147. Kutz Sv Ala 

 p. 628. • I- J- 



Cystoseira torulosa, Ag. Sp. Alg. p. 76 ; Syst. p. 290. A. RicJi. M. N. 

 Zeal. p. 139. 



Fucus torulosa, R. Br. in Turn. Hist. Inc. <!. 157. 

 Hab. On rocks near low-water mark. Kent Islands, Br. R. Brown. 

 Western Port, Victoria, W. H. H. Common in Tasmania, Gunn, etc. 

 "West coast of New Holland,'' /^e Mus. Paris. 

 Geogr. Distr. Southern coasts of Austraha, Tasmania, New Zealand. 

 Descr. Root a callus. Fronds several from the same base, 12-18 inches 

 long, compressed, rounded at the edge, simple or alternately branched, 

 beset throughout with short, alternate, horizontal branchlets, issuing from 

 the flattened side of the stem or primary branches, and deflexed at their 

 insertion. BrancJdets (or pijinie) 2 inches long, flexuous, alternately tu- 

 bercled at the base, very closely ramuliferous ; the ultimate ramifications 

 {ox pinnules) subfasciculate, simple or forked, linear-clavieform, very obtuse, 

 afterwards mostly changed into receptacles. Vesicles solitary, pedicellate, 



