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obtuse at both ends. Fructification minute, looking 

 like small grains of sand scattered over the fronds. 

 Grows on rocks and algae between tide-marks. 

 Annual. Spring and Summer. Sidmouth. Tor- 

 quay. Falmouth, very rarely, Miss Warren, 

 Minehead, Somerset, very rare, I. G. West of 

 Ireland, frequent. Near Belfast. Isle of Islay. 



PUNCTARIA PLANTAGINEA.— 

 PLANTAIN-LEAVED PUNCTARIA. 



Fronds of a dull olive-brown colour, and rather 

 tough 'j substance, obovate in shape, and much 

 tapered at the base. " Dots of fructification 

 oblong, larger than in the preceding species, from 

 which this character, with the thicker substance 

 and darker colour, serve to distinguish it." Not 

 uncommon attached to rocks and some of the 

 larger algae between the tidal levels. Annual. 

 Summer. Various places on the coasts of England, 

 Ireland, and Scotland. 



