54 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



cleft, highly reticulated, marked with concentric 

 lines. Fructification, Linear, wavy, concentric, 

 superficial sori, on both surfaces of the frond. 



TAONIA ATOMARIA.— BANDED TAONIA. 



A beautiful plant of a brownish olive colour, the 

 fronds of which are variously cleft, and marked with 

 very conspicuous transverse bands of seeds. In 

 length, the fronds are fi*om three to twelve inches, 

 the segments mostly wedge-shaped, and blunt at 

 their tips. Grows on rocks between tide-marks. 

 Annual. Summer. Eare. East and south of 

 England. Cromer. Gorton and Gunton, Norfolk. 

 Coasts of Sussex and Devon. Occasionally cast 

 ashore on the beach at Minehead, Somerset, I. G. 

 Worm's Head, Glamorganshire. Ballycotton, 

 Co. Cork. Frith of Forth. 



