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that he had never succeeded in finding the _eystocarps, adding that 
he had only met with the fronds thrown up in summer and autumn 
Writing subsequently on February 20th, 1905, se sent us specimens 
in full fruit, having found an abundance of it ten days previously 
in Botany Bay. He adds that the me ewer of the plant is 
not coriaceous but carneous, and it is a very brittle plant to 
handle. He records the same species from Redcliffe, near Bris- 
bane, Queenslan 
apc Distr, “Japan, Kastern Australia 
Aten closely resemble Suringar’ s figures of Sphero- 
coccus (Rhein a) Textorii in his Alga Japonica, 1870, p. 86, 
tab. xxiii. It was also figured by Okamura (Illustrations of the 
Marine Alge of Jil v. (1901 ) tab. xxiii.), who shows sterile and 
fertile ae and sections of fronds with tetraspores and cystocarps 
respectively 
Minter ea ? mo s Point, Port Jackson, January, 1904; 
H. 8. Lucas, n 
‘This lant ie no , fruit, and though it has the structure of 
Gracilaria, we cannot be certain that it belongs to that genus. It 
has very much the habit of Gymnogongrus norvegicus. 
Hypnza muscirormis J. Ag. Sandringham, Botany Bay, January, 
1904; A. H. S. Lucas, no. 19. 
é Geogr. Distr. Mediterranean, warm Atlantic, Indian Ocean, 
acific. 
Both these epepb bear tetraspores, era seagate _ pcs of 
the Mediterranean H. Rissoana in Kitzing’s yc. Xviil. 
tab. 19. This | ° included by De Toni as : Pathe of 2 tae musct 
irs mis. The ends of the branches are not curled or even hooked; 
and the gros are short, those bearing the tetrasporangia being 
thick and swolle 
R#opYMENIA . AUSTRALIS ame penaeinen a Botany Bay, 
January, 1904; A. H. 8. Lucas, no. 
Geogr. Distr. West and South Rieaig 
CHyYLocLaDIA GELIDIoIDES Harv. (? = Chylocladia catenata Harv 
<< catenata J. Ag. arm Cove, Relais : A Bed: Lucas, 
3. ‘Common on the rocks just below low water in the 
aawer, : 
Geogr. Distr. Australia, Ja 
In the British 2 there. are authentic specimens of e. 
gelidioides Hary. and C. catenata Harv. 1 
b . Ferd. Miiller at Twofold Bay, and is described by Harvey in 
Phye. "Aust. vol. v. Synopsis, p. xlvi, no. 603.. He pratt states that 
it resembles his Chylocladia catenata from Japan, but differs fom 
ternate ramuli and 
