Ser. RuoposPERMES. Fam. Cryptonemiacee. 
Pirate CCLXXVII. 
SCHIZYMENIA? BULLOSA, Zar. 
Gen. Cuar. Frond flat, thickish, entire or torn, formed of two strata; 
the medullary of sparingly branched, densely interwoven, jointed 
threads; the cortical of moniliform threads, vertical to the surface, 
and set in firm gelatine. ructification: 1, favelle, immersed in the 
substance of the frond, simple, containing within a gelatinous envelope 
a mass of roundish spores; 2, cruciate tetraspores, dispersed through 
the outer stratum of the frond.—Scnizymenta (J. 4g.), from oyilo, 
to cut, and dunv, a membrane. 
Frons carnoso-plana, integra aut lacerata, duplici strato cellularum constituta ; 
medullari filis articulatis parce ramosis densissime intertextis constante ; cor- 
ticali filis moniliformibus verticalibus muco cohibitis contexto. Favelle infra 
stratum exterius utrinque nidulantes, simplices, intra periderma gelatinosum 
hyalinum sporas rotundatas, demum per canalem strato exterioris liberatas, 
foventes. Tetraspore strato exteriort demerse, sparse, cruciatim divise. 
J. Ag. Sp. Alg. 2, p. 169. 
ScuizyMEntA Judlosa ; stipitate; stipes very thick and fleshy, cylindrical ; 
frond umbilicate-cordate, horizontal, irregular in outline, carnoso- 
membranaceous, crumpled all over. 
S. bullosa; stipitata; stipite crassissimo carnoso-corneo cylindraceo ; fronde 
basi umbilicato-cordata horizontali subrotundata v. varie fissa aut omnino 
irrequlart carnoso-membranacea bullata. 
SCHIZYMENIA ? bullosa, Harv. in Herb. T. C. D. 
Has. Fremantle, W. H. H., G. Clifton. 
Groar. Distr. West coast of Australia. 
Drscr. Root unknown. Stipes 1-1} inches long, 4—5 lines in diameter at base, 
2-3 lines at the summit, terete, rigid and horny, emitting from its summit 
a horizontally spreading frond. Frond imperfectly umbilicate or somewhat 
peltate-cordate at base, the basal lobes overlapping each other, roundish 
reniform in general outline, 6-12 or more inches in diameter, the margin 
undulate or repand, variously torn and at length very irregular. The surface 
of the lamina is generally very much puckered or bullated with convexities 
and opposite concavities, only in the young state tolerably flat. No fruit 
has been observed. The colour is a pale red, or somewhat sanguineous, 
fading to yellow. The substance is soft, thickish-membranous, lubricous 
and elastic. In drying, the frond shrinks unequally, and closely adheres 
to paper. 
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