Ser. RhodospermejE. Fam. Splicer ococcoidea, 



Plate CCXXXVIL 



CALLIBLEPIIARIS CONSPERSA, iiarv. 



Gen. Char. Frond flat, cartilagineo-membranaceous^ dichotomo-pinnato 

 and fimbriate, formed of two strata of cejls; the medidlary stratum 

 of roundish-angular, large cells, in several rows; the cortical of 

 minute coloured cellules. Fruct'ification : 1, sessile conceptacles, 

 containing, within a thick pericarp, on a basal placenta, a tuft of 

 raouiliforni spore-threads ; 2, zonate tetraspores, dispersed among the 

 cortical cellules. — CALUBLEi^HAias [K'ntz), from Ka\o<i, heauliful, 

 and /SXecfiapi-i, literally i/ic ej/clas/ies {cilia), here meaning fringe- 

 like marginal processes. 



Frons plana, cartilagineo-wemhranacea, dlchotomo-pinnata et margine cUiato- 

 Jimbriata, ex stratis diiohus composita ; strata medullari cellulis rotundato- 

 angulatis magnis pluriseriatls, corlicali cellulis miuutis coloratis formato. 

 Fruct.: 1, cystocarpia sessilla, intra per icarpiimi crassum ad placentam hasa- 

 lem fasciculum Jiloriim sporiferorum monHiforniliun foventia ; 2, tetrasporce 

 sparsce, zonatim divisce, in strata corticali nidulantibus. 



Calliblepharis conspersa ; frond stipitate, cartilagineous, simple or spa- 

 ringly dichotomous, ]nnnated from the margin ; pinnre variously cleft 

 and fimbriate, sometimes multifid, aculeate-dentate or ciliate at the 

 margin ; disc sprinkled with spinous points or lobules ; coccidia scat- 

 tered over the surface of the frond. 



C. conspersa ; fronde stipitata cartilaginea simpUci v. parce dichotoma a viar- 

 gine pinnata ; pinnis varie lobatis et fmbriatis nunc multifidis margine den- 

 iato-aculeatis ciliatisve ; disco aculeis v. lobulis ramosis consperso ; coccidiis 

 per totam laminam conspersis. 



Calliblepmakis conspersa, Harv. in Trans. R. I. Acad. v. 22. /;. 550. JIarv. 

 Jig. Exsic. Justr. n. 300. 



Hab. Garden Island, West Australia, IF. 11. IJ. Port Fairy, Victoria, 

 W. H. 11. 



Geogr. Distr. West and south coasts of Australia. 



Dkscr. Boot brancliino-. Frond 6-8 inches long, and as much in the expansion 

 of the laeinire, polymon)lious : wiicn quite young, often exactly obovate and 

 very entire, a form sometimes assumed also by the marginal lobes of older 

 specimens; more usually obovate-oblong or ovalo-lanceolate, jagged and 

 toothed at the margin, and at length becoming pinnate from tiie evolution 

 of tiie marginal teeth into lateral loljes. Tiiesc lateral lobes or pinna; arc 

 3-8 inches long, simple or again similarly pinnate, oblong or lanceolate, 

 much constricted at the base, very irregular in form, with the margin toothed, 

 or ciliate, or eroso-lacerate. The surface of the frond, when young, is quite 



