122 PAPKRS, ETC. 



Lately, however, specimens of it have been receivetl 

 from New Zealand. The primaiy fruit is contained In a 

 raised nerve-like liiie, which traverses tlie centre of each 

 division of the frond ; and when this is present, the plant 

 may easily be recognised. The secondary fruit, tetraspores, 

 occur in i'ound sori on the frond. These I first discovered 

 on Minehead specimens ; and plants with this description 

 of fruit have not been found at Plymouth, nor does it 

 appear an abundant species there. 



On Minehead beach the young plants are to be met 

 with in June ; in the following November and December 

 they attain their füll growth. One single plant with 

 tetraspores was obtained by the dredge in Cork Harbour, 

 by Mr. Carroll, in 1851 ; and in June of last year (1853), 

 a young plant with incipient fruit (linear) was picked up 

 by a relative of miue, on the beach at Lynmouth, North 

 Devon. I have no doubt that were the dredge eraployed, 

 it would be found to grow in deep water off that coast, and 

 the adjoining part of Somerset. In all, I have noted 

 about forty species drifted ashore at different times on 

 Minehead beach. It is not, I believe, important to give 

 their names hei'e, for in this notice my alm is rather to 

 show what field the Algologist has to work on in this dis- 

 trict, and to point out those species that may always be 

 met with in their proper seasons, than to detail a list of 

 kinds only occasionally met with, and not ascertained 

 natives of the coast. My own opportunities of visiting 

 localities between Clevedon and Minehead have been very 

 few ; but I conclude that in favorable situations, the 

 several species growing at the former place may likewnse 

 be met with at intermediate spots. 



The portion of the Bristol Channel which comes 

 within our notice, ranges from about Portishead, on the 



