Gunniane. N. O. Alge. 
TAB. DCLXII. 
THamnocarpvs. Harv. 
Has. Port Arthur. Van Diemen’s Land. Ronald Gunn, Esq. 
Frond 3-4 inches high, nearly half a line in diameter, much 
substance formed of interwoven, longitudinal, jointed fibres. 
The fructification consists of spherospores (or tri-sporous cap- 
sules) exactly similar to those of Callithamnion, borne on little 
pencils of much branched, confervoid, articulated filaments, 
ry 
land, the land of puzzles, presenting as it does a frond outwardly 
resembling Gigartina plicata or Griffithsia, with a fructification 
which is in itself a perfect miniature Callithamnion (/), thus 
offering @ new Instance of the justice of Agardh’s remark, that 
the lower algee are the organs of the higher.” ‘The only other 
magnified. f.4, Ramulus of the pencil, with spheros = 
ag f th . pores 
highly magnified. J.5. Longitudinal section of stem ; magnified. 
