118 CH^TOPHOEE^. 



atlons that each of the cells of Draparjialdia glomerata ought 

 to be considered as a receptacle whence the reproductive 

 bodies formed at the expense of the green matter issue under 

 the form of rounded vesicles themselves being fiUed with 

 endochrome." — M. Decaisne, Memoire sur la Classification 

 des AlgueSf p. 314. 



8. DRAPARNALDIA Bory. 



Char. Filaments /ree, not immersed in gelatinous fiuid. 

 Draparnaldia Bory, in Annales du IMuseum, voL xii. 

 Charospermum Link, in Hort. Phjs. 5. Batrachosper- 

 mum in part, Vauch. Hist, des Conf. 



" It is to Draparnard that I dedicate this genus, which 

 forms the subject of this new memoir. Those who have 

 been acquainted with that naturalist, alone know all that 

 he was capable of: active, indefatigable, he was fitted for 

 studies the most diverse. Wise and prudent, also timid in 

 his researches, he hastened not to pubhsh ; he collected facts, 

 he matured them, he wished his works to be without re- 

 proach. INlisfortunes and death have surprised him before 

 the execution of his projects, his career is closed before his 

 writings have established his reputation. Scarcely a few 

 phrases, escaped from his pen, and committed to paper, re- 

 main ; and the loss of treasures which he had collected in 

 his memoirs occasions the greater regret to those who loved 

 him for cherishing the sciences as he cherished them. 



" I could doubtless have selected, amongst so many rare and 

 new vegetables which presented themselves to me in my 

 voyages, — I could have found, I say, some genus more ana- 

 logous to the beauties of his spirit, upon which to place the 

 name of Draparnard; majestic palm trees, brilliant with 

 vigour, reigning over the forest, should perpetuate his remem- 

 brance. But the modest manes of my friend, have they not 

 approved my choice ? They will smile on that which I have 

 done. May his name live amongst the Conferva, which Avere 

 his dearest study !" — Bory. 



Kiitzing refers the genus Draparnaldia to his Ectospermca, 



