540 
The sporangia form long chains in the nemathecial filaments; only the ultimate 
cell is sterile, as shown by DARBISHIRE (1895, p. 28, fig. 36). As late as April I found 
sporangia partly divided into four cells, partly only divided by a transverse wall; 
they measured 9—14 x 6-7 u (9 X 7 to 14 X 6 w). 
The frond reaches a length of up to 20 cm. The breadth is variable; outside 
Skagen the maximum breadth varies from 5 to 10 mm, in the northern and eastern 
Kattegat from 4 to 7 (rarely 9) mm, in Km, Ks, Sa and Su from 2 to 4 (rarely 5) 
mm. As mentioned above, the ramification by dichotomy is less pronounced in the 
inner waters than outside Skagen (Ns and Sk). 
Phyllophora epiphylla is confined to the waters with a comparatively high 
salinity: the North Sea, Skagerak, Northern, Eastern and Southern Kattegat. Outside 
these territories it has only been collected by dredging in one place (one specimen) 
in the central part of the Kattegat (Km). Further it has been found loose on the 
beach sparingly at Hofmansgave (Sa) and frequently in the Øresund north of 
Helsingør; to the latter places it is probably carried from the Swedish coast. It 
grows in rather deep water, on stony or gravelly bottom, in Ns, Sk and Kn in 
5.5—41 m depth, in Ke at 15—25 metres’ depth. 
Localities. Ns: Jydske Rev, eD, 41 m; eC, 26 m; eO and eP off Agger; eR; eT; XR off Klit- 
møller. — Sk: Off Hanstholm 13 m; at Bragerne, 10.5 m; ZK*, 7.5—9.5 m and ZK® 11.3—13 m off Len- 
strup; Hirtshals, washed ashore; Skagen, washed ashore. — Kn: Herthas Flak, 19—22 m; Læsø Trindel, 
several places, 15—13 m: GM, Engelskmands Banke; UB, east of Nordre Ronner, 9—11.5 m; north of 
N. Ronner 7 m; east side of Hirsholmene; XG, east of Deget 4—5.5 m; Frederikshavn (Schmidt 1863). — 
Ke: Groves Flak, 19 m (!, Borgesen); HZ, Store Middelgrund 25.5 m; Gilleleje and Nakkehoved, washed 
ashore (Schouw, Lyngbye). — Km: HT, Fornæs lighthouse i SW ‘/s W 7 miles, 16 m. — Ks: At Hesselo 
(Lyngbye); D, at gronne Revle; off Tisvilde Leje, 3 miles, 15 m (A. Otterstrom); ad littus Vejbye prope 
fontem Helenæ et Raageleje (Lyngbye). — Sa: Hofmansgave, washed ashore (Hofm. Bang, Caroline Rosen- 
berg), was not recorded from this locality by LyNGByE, seems therefore to be rare. — Su: Washed ashore 
at Hellebæk and at Helsingor (Orsted, C. Rosenberg, Joh. Lange, Borgesen,!). 
Loose form: f. Bangü (Horn.) Fries. 
Fucus Bangii Hornemann, Flora Danica, tab. 1477 (1813). 
Spherococeus Bangii Agardh Synops. (1813) p. 24; Kützing, Phyc. gen. (1843) p. 410, Taf. 59 II, Tab. 
phye. Bd. 18 (1868) Taf. 84. 
Chondrus Bangii Lyngbye Hydr. (1819) p. 17, tab. 3. 
Phyllophora Bangii E. Fries Summa veg. Scand. (1845—49) p. 126; Darbishire (1895). 
Rhizophyllis ? Bangii J. Agardh. Sp. g. o. Il.ı p. 223. (1851). 
This pretty little alga, characterised by its much incised frond, was discovered 
by Horman Bane at Hofmansgave at the North coast of Fyn, where it is frequently 
found washed ashore and from which locality innumerable specimens have been 
distributed, in particular by Horman Bane and by his foster-daughter Miss CAROLINE 
ROSENBERG. LYNGBYE referred it to the genus Chondrus and described a fructifica- 
tion consisting in “‘tubercula subglobosa 4-granulata in substantia frondis remote et 
inordinate sparsa”. This supposed fructification, however, does not belong to this 
Alga but is due to some alien organism, probably germinating spores of Furcellaria 
