The colour is a very dark, ricli red-brown, becoming darker and browner in 

 drying. The substance is soft and rather flaccid, and the frond adheres 

 closely to paper in drying. 



Of this pretty little species, named in compliment to my 

 friend Mr. Bland, of Melbourne (if for no better reason, perhaps 

 because itself deserving of the name of " hJanda "), I collected 

 many specimens at Brighton Beach, Port Phillip, but have not 

 noticed it elsewhere, nor received it from any of my correspon- 

 dents. As a species it is perhaps as nearly, if not more nearly, 

 allied to the European P.Jibrata than to any of the Australian 

 forms ; among which it most approaches P. mollis, but differs 

 in colour, substance, and various characters. From P. fihrata it 

 is chiefly to be known by the length of its articulations and the 

 somewhat different form of the ceramidia. 



Fig. 1. PoLYSiPHONiA Blandi, — the natural size. 2. Part of a branch, bear- 

 ing ceramidia. 3. Cross section of branch. 4. Spores. 5. Apex of a 

 branch, bearing telraspores. 6. A tetraspore. 7. Fibrilliferous apex. 

 8, 9. Portion of frond, showing articulations of various lengths : — all more 

 or less magnified. 



