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Localities: Kn: Kummel Banke 38 m. — Km: ZC and EZ south of Læsø; 6 miles SSW !/a W 
of Læso Rendes lightship Sm (C. A. J.); BK, Tangen. — Sa: East side of Wulff’s Flak; AO; Endelaves 
SE Flak, 7.5 m; Fyns Hoved in E Y4 N 57/2 miles. — Sf: fV, south side of Svelmo, 4 m; — Sh: fP, 
E of Hov light-house, 5.5 m. — Bw: fU, south side of Æro, 7 m. 
Fig. 518. 
Phyllophora Brodi«i f. stellata. South of Ærø. 2:1. 
3. Phyllophora epiphylla (Fl. Dan.) BATTERS. 
Batters, A Catalogue of the British Marine Algæ, 1902, p. 65. 
Fucus epiphyllus O. F. Müller, Flora Danica, Tab. 705. 1777. (from Norway). 
Fucus prolifer Lightfoot, Fl. Scot. II, p. 949, tab. 30. 1777. 
Fucus rubens Good. et Woodw. Trans. Lin. Soc. Ill, 1797, p. 165. 
Chondrus rubens Lyngb. Tent. p. 18. 
Phyllophora rubens (G.& W.) Greville Algæ Brit. p. 135, pl. 15; Harvey Phye. Brit. II, Pl. 131, (1849); 
J. Agardh, Sp. g. o. II, I p. 331, (1851); Kützing 
Tab. phyc. IX, tab. 76, (1869); Buffham, Antherid. 
(1893), p. 292, pl. XII, fig. 5; Schmitz, Actinoc. 
1893, p.399 ff.; Darbishire (1894), p. 369, id. (1895), 
pp. 4, 7, 12, 21, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36). 
The fronds arise from a basal disc that, 
according to DARBISHIRE, may be 5—15 mm 
in diameter and up to 1.5 mm thick. The 
lowermost portion of the frond is cylindrical, 
but this stemlike portion may be extremely 
short; when it is more developed it may 
give rise to a considerable number of branches 
that take a similar appearance as the primary 
Fig. 519. 
Phyllophora epiphylla. A,frond dredged off Lonstrup, 
frond (fig.519 B). The shoots gradually expand Skagerak. B, lower portion of frond from the same 
o . . locality. C, upper portion of frond dredged in the 
ea membranaceous linear frond w hich North Sea 15 miles off Hanstholm lighthouse. A, C */; 
grows by the activity of an apical meristeme natural size. B natural size. 
