48 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



The fructification appears scattered over the whole 

 surface in small prominent dots ; the young plants 

 ^re often fringed with minute fibres. Substance at 

 first crisp, but becomes flaccid, and adheres well 

 to paper in drying". Grows on rocks and shells at 

 a depth of from four to fifteen fathom water. 

 Annual. Summer and Autumn. Yarmouth, 

 Brighton, Seaton, Sidmouth, Torquay, and 

 Plymouth, on the English coast. At Roundstone 

 Bay, Cunnemara, Kilkee, Bantry Bay, Bally- 

 cotton, Co. Cork, and Wicklow, on the Irish shores. 

 Very rare in Scotland. Orkney. 



HALISERIS. 



Name signifying sea endive. 



" Root a mass of woolly filaments. Frond flat, 

 linear, membranaceous, with a midrib. Fructifica- 

 tion, Oval sporeSy forming distinct sort or groups, 

 mostly arranged in longitudinal lines." — Grev. 



