202 ALGyE RHODOSPERME^E. {Phyllophora. 



Rocky shores, cemmon. Very variable in size, shape, and colour, 

 (often of a full green) ; yet the accustomed eye will find little difficulty 

 in recognising it under all its varieties. On our western shores it is 

 collected in large quantities by poor women and children, and sold 

 under the name of Blanc-mange-weed, (or, as they pronounce it, 

 Bullamonge} At one time it sold in Dublin at two shillings per 

 pound, but latterly the price has greatly fallen away. It may now be 

 bought, washed and dried, on the west of the County of Clare, at from 

 one shilling to one shilling and six pence per stone, of sixteen pounds. 



3. C. Norvegicus, Lyngb. Norway Chondrus. Frond car- 

 tilagineo-membranaceous, dichotomous, plane; axils patent; 

 segments nearly linear ; the apices obtuse ; capsules sphaerical, 

 sessile on the disk. Grev. AJg. Brit. Lyngb. Dan. p. 16. 

 Fucus Norv. Turn. Hist, t 41. E. Bot. t. 1080. 



Rocky shores, rare. Bantry ; Miss Hutchins. Youghal ; Miss 

 Ball. Miltown Malbay ; W. H. Harvey. Fronds 23 inches high, 

 purplish-red, thinner than those of C. crispus. This species is omitted 

 oy mistake in Dr. Hooker's British Flora. 



4. C. membranifolius, Grev. Membranous-leaved Chondrus. 

 Stipes cylindrical, filiform, branched ; the branches expanding 

 into subcuneate,membranaceo-cartilaginous, two-lobed or dicho- 

 tomous segments ; capsules ovate, shortly pedunculated, aris- 

 ing from the stipes. Hook.Br. Fl. v. ii. p. 302. Fucus memb. 

 Turn. Hist. t. 74. E. Bot. t. 1965. 



Rocky shores, not uncommon. Youghal ; Miss Ball. 



5. C. Brodicei, Grev. Mr. Brodies Chondrus. Stipes cy- 

 lindrical, branched ; the branches expanding into oblong, mem- 

 branaceo-cartilaginous, simple or forked, flat segments ; capsules 

 sphaerical, sessile upon the apices of the segments. Grev. Alg. 

 Brit. p. 133. Sphcerococcus Brodicei, Lamour. Fucus Brodicei, 

 Turn. Hist. Fuc. t. 72. E. Bot. t. 1966. 



Found only among rejectamenta on our northern shores. Mouth of 

 the river Bann, County of Deny ; Mr. D. Moore. Larne, County 

 of Antrim ; Dr. Drummond. Strangford Lough, County of Down ; 

 Mr. W. Thompson. 



47. PHYLLOPHORA. Grev. Phyllophora. 



Frond cartilaginous or membranaceous, of a purple rose-red 

 colour, plane, proliferous from the disk, furnished with a 

 more or less imperfect or obscure midrib. Fruct. : 1. Cap- 

 sules, containing a mass of minute, roundish, free seeds ; 

 2. Son of simple granules, in little foliaceous processes. 

 Grev. Name ; 0v\Xoj/, a leaf, and (fropew, to bear ; the frond 

 being proliferous. 



1. P. rubens, Grev. Red Phyllophora. Stipes very short, 

 expanding into a sublinear, obscurely ribbed frond, which is 

 repeatedly branched in a proliferous manner; innovations re- 



