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Order Gelidiace^e. 



Gelidi^tm corneum, var. Clavatum, Caroline Park Eocks 



(Richardson). 



Dasya coccinea, 



Odonthalia dentata, 



Polysiphonia urceolata, 



fibrata, 



elongella., 

 elongata, 



Order Ehodomelace^. 



. . Near Kirkcaldy (Greville) ; at 

 Elie, on Laminaria roots ; 

 rather rare {M'Bain and 

 G. W. T.). 

 . . Growing abundantly between 

 Burntisland and Starley Burn 

 (Greville) ; Elie (WBain) ; 

 growing at Joppa at low water 

 of spring tides, and sometimes 

 cast ashore there from deep 

 water in abundance ((x. W. T). 



Seafield Eocks, Fife {Greville)-, 

 Chapelness, Earlsferry, com- 

 mon (G. W. T) ; Elie (M'Bain) ; 

 Caroline Park Eocks (G. W.T.); 

 Joppa (G. W. T), near low 

 water. 



Common at Earlsferry and Elie, 

 especially at Chapelness and 

 Lady's Tower, in shallow pools 

 from half tide to low water, 

 August and September. 



Earlsferry and Elie, near low 

 water ; rather rare. 



Caroline Park (Pichardson) ; near 

 Kirkcaldy (Greville), in both 

 cases among rejectamenta ; 

 Elie (M'Bain): at Kincraig, 

 Earlsferry, chiefly on stones 

 and old shells, and seldom 

 between tide marks, in fine 

 fruit of both kinds, in July 

 1879 {G. W. T). 



