Chylodadia.'\ ALGM RHODOSPERME.E. 199 



Frucf. of two kinds : 1. sphacrical, ovate or conical capsules, 

 with wedge-shaped or angular seeds ; 2. imbedded, ternate 

 granules. Name ; KfXos, juice, and *c\aov, a branch ; from 

 the succulent nature of the frond. 



* Frond without constrictions. 



1. C. clavellosa, Hook. Clavellate Chylocladia. Frond 

 much branched in an irregular or somewhat pinnate manner ; 

 branches and ramuli alternate, distichous ; ultimate ramuli 

 often crowded, lanceolato-fusiform, attenuated at base. Hook. 

 Br. FL v. ii. p. 297.Fucus clavell. Turn. t. 30. E. Bot. 

 t. 1283. 



Sea-shores, rather rare. Bantry ; Miss Hutchins. Kilkee ; W. 

 H. Harvey. Black rocks, Portrush ; Mr. D. Moore. Very variable 

 in ramification, and best distinguished from our native species by its 

 unconstricted frond and slender ramuli. 



* * Ramuli elliptical, rarely somewhat elongated and con- 

 stricted. 



2. C. ovalis, Hook. Oval-leaved Chylocladia. Frond fili- 

 form, irregularly dichotomous, naked below, above beset with 

 elliptical, simple (rarely elongated and constricted) ramuli ta- 

 pering at the base ; capsules sphserical, with a pellucid border. 

 Hook. Br. FL v. ii. p. 297.Fucus ovalis. Turn. *. 81. E. 

 Bot.t.711. 



On rocks in the sea, not rare. 46 inches high, slightly branched, 

 beset in the upper part with elliptical, rarely elongated ramuli, re- 

 sembling the leaves of a Sedum. 



s|c $ :fc Frond constricted as if jointed. 



3. C. kaliformis, Hook. Salsola-like Chylocladia. Frond 

 subgelatinous, tubular, distantly constricted as if jointed, much 

 and somewhat pinnatedly branched ; branches whorled at the 

 constrictions with catenulate ramuli ; capsules sphaerical, with a 

 pellucid border. Hook. Br. FL v. ii. p. 298.Fucus kalifor- 

 mis. Turn. t. 29. E. Bot. t. 640. 



Sea-shores ; particularly fine in Bantry bay ; Miss Hutchins. 



4. C. parvula, Hook. Least Chylocladia. Frond subgela- 

 tinous, slender, irregularly branched in a subdichotomous, 

 straggling manner; constrictions (throughout the frond) nearly 

 equal in length and breadth ; " capsules ovate, cantaining a 

 sphaerical mass of wedge-shaped seeds." ( Grev.J Hook. Br. 

 FL v. Up. 298. Chondria parvula. Grev. Crypt, t. 346. 



Parasitic on the larger Algae. Bantry ; Miss Hutchins. Miltovm 

 Malbay ; W, H. Harvey. Black rocks, Portrush ; Mr. D. Moore, 



