130 COMMON SEAWEEDS. 



twenty inches long. It is a native of Spain, south of 

 France, Mediterranean Sea, and we find it on the 

 coast, or pick it frorn the dredge or fisherman's nets. 

 Here I would advise students to examine lobster pots, 

 cables, floats, and oyster shells, which may amply 

 repay him by minute but beautiful specimens, either 

 for his book or the microscope. 



Cutleria has a twofold fructification. 1. Spore-cases, 

 stalked, oblong, containing about eight spores : clus- 

 ters here and there on the frond are like black dots, 

 or still more like the black fungus on the under side 

 of rose-leaves in autumn, called Puccinea. 2. Anthe- 

 ridia, which are like airy sausages attached to tufted 

 filaments, densely zoned with dotted lines scattered 

 over the whole frond. The substance of the frond 

 itself is like exquisite net-work. Colour, foxy olive. 



Yery often this is washed up in great quantities. 



KALY3IE]SriA REXIEOKMIS. 



(Xame from two Greek words signifying " beautiful" and "membrane.") 



Generic character. — Stem short, suddenly expand- 

 ing into a broad, flat, roundish, red frond. Favellce 

 densely scattered over its surface. 



Kalymenia is rarely gatliered on our coast, but often 

 picked up, crumpled and torn, amidst seaweed left by 

 the tide after a gale of wind. A mass of blood-red 

 membrane, sometimes eight inches or even a foot in 

 diameter, gritty to the touch from the abundance of 

 fruit, about the size of poppy-seeds, which are scat- 



