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of fruit, consisting of crimson spores, is contained in a transpa- 

 rent network basket, formed by the favellse, or short branches, 

 whence its name. 



The Cryptonemiacece are very numerous in genera and species, 

 They all have inarticulate branches, some are thread-like. Gra- 

 teloupia filicina is a neat little plant, me.t with rarely on the 

 south and west coasts. Gigartina mamillosa, a common plant 

 everywhere, is the plant sold, along with Chondrus crispus, as 



Fig. 6. Chondrus crispus. 



Irish or Carrageen moss. A handsome little plant, Stenogramme 

 interrupta, is very rare, but it has been gathered both on the 

 Irish and English coasts. The Phyllophoree, one species of 

 which is frequent on all our shores, may be recognised by the 

 way in which the points and surfaces of their fronds throw 

 out proliferous leaves. Gymnogongrus has two British species, 

 one much resembling Chondrus crispus, already named, of 

 which it was formerly considered a congener. Their fructifica- 

 tion is however very different. Ahnfeltia plicata is a curious 



