184 ALG/E MELANOSPERMEyE. [Corynephora. 



branched, coloured, torulose, vcrticillate filaments. Fruct. 

 ovate or elliptical, olivaceous seeds (capsules?) attached to 

 the ramuli of the periphery. Name; 3y><, a hair, and K\a8os, 

 a branch; the branches being composed of hair-like fila- 

 ments. 



1. T. vermicular is, Harv. Worm-like Trichocladia. Frond 

 clumsy ; branches irregularly pinnate, thick, vermicular, lineari- 

 fusiform ; ramuli copious, elongated, flexuose, resembling the 

 branches. Mesogloia vermicularis, Ag. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. 

 v. ii. p. 887. Riv. verm, E. Bot. t. 1818. 



Sea-shores, not uncommon. 1 2 feet high. Branches clumsy, 

 attenuated toward each end. Capsules ovate, abundantly produced. 



2. T. Griffithsiana, Harv. Mrs. Griffiths Trichocladia. 

 Frond slender, equal throughout ; branches alternate or irregu- 

 lar, filiform, long, simple, nearly bare of ramuli. Mesogloia 

 Griffithsiana, Grev. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. v. ii. p. 387. 



Sea-shores, rare. Bantry bay; Miss Hutchins. 8 16 inches high 

 of a pale rather olive-green, becoming greener in fresh water. Branches 

 long, subsimple, covered with long colourless byssoid fibres, similar to 

 those found in Chordaria flagelliformis, a plant which this species 

 strongly resembles in habit. Capsules pyriform. 



3. T. virescens, Harv. Greenish villous Trichocladia. Frond 

 filiform, gelatinous ; branches long, erecto-patent, slender, vil- 

 lous ; ramuli numerous, patent, short, flexuose. obtuse. Meso- 

 gloia virescens, Carm- Harv. in Hook. Br. FL v. ii. p. 387. 

 *Berk. Gl. Br. Alg. p. 44. t. 17. /. 2. (also M. qffinis, Berk, and 

 M. gracilis, Carm. Berk. Alg. 1. 16. /. 2. and t. 17. /. I.) 



Sea- shores. Ban try bay ; Miss Hutchins. I have examined the 

 M. gracilis of Captain Carmichael, and do not consider it specifically 

 distinct from the present ; and though I have not seen specimens of 

 Mr. Berkeley's M. affinis, yet, judging from the figure and description 

 of that author, I can consider it but as the young of this species. 



26. CORYNEPHORA. Ag. Corynephora. 



Frond globose or lobed, carnoso-coriaceous, hollow (not filled 

 with gelatine), composed of articulated dichotomous fila- 

 ments, fasciculated at the apices, and issuing from a central 

 point. Fruct.: oval capsules, seated in the terminal fasciculi. 

 Name ; Kopovrj, a club, and 0o/>ew, to bear ; the apices of the 

 filaments, which constitute the periphery, are clavate. 



1. C. marina, Ag. Marine Corynephora. Ag. Lyst. Alg. 

 p. 24. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. v.' ii. p. 390. Grev. Crypt, 

 t. 25. ( imperfect. ) 



On rocks in the sea, very common. Frond carnose, forming many 

 hollow lobed tubers, and spreading over a large space, olive-brown. 

 In young plants the lobes are filled with wide hyaline dichotomous 



