562 SPHAEEOCOCCACEAE. 



5. WUEDEMANNIA Harv. Ner. Bor.-Am. 2: 245. 1853. 

 1. Wurdemannia set^cea Harv. loe. cit. 246. 



On rocks among other algae and on sea-rods, sea-fans, etc., from low-water mark 

 down to at least 20 meters, common, .loulter's Cay, Berry Islands, Great Bahama, 

 South Cat Cay, Exuma Chain, Atwood Cay, and Caicos Islands : — Bermuda ; Florida ; 

 and Cuba. Type from Key West, Florida. 



Tamily 7. SPHAEROCOCCACEAE. 



1. GEACIIiAIMA Grev. p. p. Alg. Brit, liv, 121. 1830. 



Ceramiantemum Donati, Auszug NatuT-Geschiohte Adriat. Meers 26. 1753. 



Ceramion Adans. Earn. PI. 2: 13. 1763. 



? Plocaria Nees, Hor. Phys. Berol. 42. 1820. 



Thallus plane or distinctly compressed, di-polychotomous or more or less pinnate. 

 Membranaceous when dry ; main axes or segments mostly 0.3—1 mm. thick. 

 Thallus dichotomo-palmatifld, marginal branches or pro- 

 liferations usually wanting or few. 1. (?. lacinulata. 

 Thallus with main divisions subdichotomous, these pin- 



nately decompound or repeatedly dichotomo-pinnatisect. 2. O. cervlcornis. 

 Hard and corneous when dry, cartilaginous when living, mostly 

 2-7 mm. thick, prostrate or repent, often concrescent or 

 anastomosing, branches irregular, mostly distichous and 

 deflexed, often short and verrucaeform, sometimes sub- 

 terete, digitiform or hapteroid. 3. G. crassissima. 

 Thallus terete or nearly so, corneous when dry. 



Thallus rather closely and somewhat divaricately subdichot- 

 omous, the ultimate divisions short, often incurved, cervi- 

 Qorn. 4. G. damaecorms. 



Thallus rather distantly and somewhat fastigiately subdichot- _ 



omous, the ultimate divisions not cervicorn. o- G, cornea. 



1. Gracilaria lacinulata (Vahl) M. A. Howe, comb. nov. 



Fueus lacinulatus Vahl, Nat. Selsk. Skr. S": 39. 1802. 



Fucus multipartitus Clem: Ensayo 311. 1807. 



Chondrus agaihoicus Iiamour. Essai 39. pi. 9. f. 3, 4, 5. 1813. 



Fucus aeruginosus Turn. Hist. Fue. 3: 29. pi. 147. 1811. 



Chondrus aeruginosus Laroour. Essai 40. 1813. 



Sphaerococcus polycarpus Grev. Soot. Crypt. Fl. 6: pi. 35$^ 1828. 



Gracilaria multipartiia Harv. Phyo. Brit. pi. IS. 1846. 



Sphaerococcus lacinulatus Kutz. Tab. Phyc. 18: 30. pi. 87. f. u-d. 1868. 



In shallow water. Berry Islands : — Massachusetts to Bermuda ; Florida ; Mexico ; 

 and throughout the West Indies ; Europe. Type from St. Croix. 



?. Gracilaria cervicfimis (Turn.) J. Ag. Sp. Alg. 2: 604. 1852. 



Fucus cervicornis Turn. Hist. Puc. 2: 132. pi. ISl. 1809. 

 Sphaerococcus domingensis (Sond.) Kiitz. Tab. Phyc. 19: 8. pi. 2S. f. a, b. 

 1869. 



In shallow water. New Providence and Caicos Islands : — Florida to Brazil. Type 

 from Jamaica. 



3. Gracilaria crassissima Crouan; J. Ag. Sp. Alg. 3': 78. 1901. 



? Gracilaria horizontalis Collins & Hervey, Proc. Am. Acad. 53: 111. 1918. 



Forming prostrate, orust-like, intertangled masses in shallow water. Berry Islands 

 North Cat Cay, South Cat Cay, and Mariguana : — Bermuda ( ?) ; Porto Rico ; and 

 Guadeloupe. Type from Guadeloupe. 



