60 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



four, or five together. When in fruit, the branches 

 are marked across with bands composed of clusters 

 of spores. The substance is dehcately membrana- 

 ceous. The colour pale olive. Grows between 

 tide-marks, and in four to five fathom water on 

 other algse. Annual. Summer. Eare. Devon- 

 port. Falmouth. Penzance. Ilfracombe. Round- 

 stone-bay, Connemara. 



PUNCTARIA. 



Name from punctum a dot, descriptive of the dotted 

 fructifications. 



Frond simple, membranaceous, with a naked 



scutate root. Fructijication scattered over the 



whole frond in minute distinct spots. 



PUNCTARIA LATIFOLIA.— BROAD- 

 LEAFED PUNCTARIA. 



Fronds of a pale olive-green colour, and deHcate 

 substance; oblong or obovate in shape, usually 



