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3. COCCOCHLORIS HYALINA Mcncgh. 



Plate LXXVIII. Figs. 2 a. 2 b. 



Char. Frond gelatinous, cylindrical or globose, solitary, sub- 

 hyaline ; internal globules globose, very minute, green. 

 Palmella hyalina Lyngb. ; Grev. Scot. Ciypt. Fl. t. 247.; 

 Harv. in Hook. Brit. Flor. p. 397. ; Harv. in Manual, 

 p. 177. 



Hah. Bogs at Fisher's Castle, Tunbridge Wells : Mr. 

 Jenner. 



Lyngbye describes this species as follows : — " Mass gela- 

 tinous, cylindrical, solitary, solid, floating on the surface of 

 water, an inch or two long, colour commonly Avatery, pel- 

 lucid, except as regards that which is OAving to the internal 

 granules, which are of a deUcate green colour. Substance in 

 the highest degree lubricous, adheres, in drying, to paper." 

 Brebisson, however, states that it attains to the remarkable 

 size of one or two feet in length, and from six to eight inches 

 in thickness. 



" Specimens communicated liberally by CI. Brebisson 

 and Lenormond are five inches long, and although closely 

 adherent to paper, yet manifest greater solidity of the suiDcr- 

 ficial stratum over the internal substance. For being lacer- 

 ated by compression, they exhibit the interior eifused sub- 

 stance hyaline, and the exterior pellicle more intensely 

 coloured and opaque, and divided into uTcgular fragments. 

 In the interior substance uniform, very minute globules are 

 imbedded, scarcely measuring the two thousandth part of a 

 millemetre ; but the exterior pellicle is constituted of globules 

 somewhat larger, covering a diameter of the two hundred and 

 fiftieth part of a millimetre. In which oblong vesicles, alto- 

 gether filled witli minute globules, from the twentieth to tlie 

 twenty-fifth part of a millimetre long, are mixed." 



What appears to me to be at least a variety of this 

 species was sent to me by the Kev. INI. J. Berkeley. The 

 fronds were globose, but smaller and less solid than those of 

 C. hyalina in its usual state, and the globules larger. See 



PI. LXXVIII. fiff. 5. 



