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AHNFELTIA, Fries. 



Ahnfeltia plicata (Huds.) Fries. 



Fl. Scand., p. 310. — Fucus plicatus, Huds., Fl. Augl., p. 589. 

 Doscr. Gymnogongrus plicatus, Harv., Phyc. Brit. 

 Fig. „ „ Hare, I.e. pi. 288. 



Exsicc. Ahnfeltia plioata, Le Jol., Alg. Mar. Oherb., no. 141; Cm., 

 Alg. Finist., no. 199 ; Hohenacker, Alg. Mar. Sice, no. 191. 

 Ahnfeldtia plicata, Aresch., Alg. Scand. Exsicc, no. 77. 

 Gigartina plicata, Wyatt, Alg. Danm., no. 116 ; Rabenh., Alg. 

 Europ., no. 1258. 

 Syn. „ ,, Lamoar., Ess. p. 48 ; Orev., Alg. Brit., p. 150 ; 



Johnston, Fl. Berwk. n., p. 234. 

 Ahnfeltia plicata, /. Ag., Spec. Alg. n., p. 311 ; Id., Epicr. p. 206. 

 Gymnogongrus plicatus, Ktz., Spec. Alg., p. 789. 

 Sphaerococcus plicatus, Ag., Spec. Alg. i., p. 313 ; Ag., Syst. p. 234. 

 Hab. In sandy pools from half-tide level to low-water mark and below. 

 All the year. Common along the whole coast. 



PHYLLOPHORA, Grev. 



Phyllophora rubens (Linii.) Grev. 



Alg. Brit., p. 135, t. 15. — Fucus rubeus, Linn., Spec. Plant., 

 p. 1162. 

 Descr. Phyllophora rubens, Harv., I'hyc. Brit. 

 Fig. „ „ Harv., I.e. pi. 131. 



Exsicc. ,, „ Wyatt, Alg. Danm., no. 29; Crouun, Alg. 



Finist., no. 203 ; Le Jol., Alg. Mar. Cherb., no. 134. 

 Syn. „ „ Ktz., Spec. Alg., p. 791 ; J. Ag., Spec. Alg. 



u., p. 331 ; Id., Epicr. p. 217. 

 Sphaerococcns rubens, Ag., Spec. Alg. i., p. 237 ; Ag., Syst. p. 213. 

 Chondrus rubens, Lyngb., Hydr. Dan., p. 18. 

 Halymenia rubens, Duby, Bot. GalJ. n., p. 943 ; Johnston, Fl. 



Berwk. n., p. 227. 

 Fucus rubens, Good, et Woodiu., in Linn. Trans. III., p. 165 ; Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1053. 

 Hab. On the sides of deep, shady rock pools at low-water mark and below. 

 All the year. Fruit Nov. — March. Not uncommon. At the 

 Coves, Sharper Head, Burnmouth, Holy Island, and elsewhere. 

 This and several other Algae such as Odonthalia dentata, 

 Delesseria sinuosa, Hydrolapathum sanguineum, Laminaria digitata, 

 etc., which are usually found near low- water mark, grow in pro- 

 fusion on the shady sides of the deep pools in the caves to the 

 north of Sharper Head, especially in the caves known as the 

 Singing Coves. 



