72 THE MARINE BOTANIST, 



similar to what occur in C, flagellifornis, which 

 makes the plant, as it waves in the water, look of 

 much g-reater diameter than it really is." Spores 

 pear-shaped. Grows between tide-marks. Rare. 

 Annual. Summer. South of England and West 

 of Ireland. Sidmouth. Torquay. " Very rarely 

 cast ashore in Falmouth Bay/' Miss Warren. Ban 

 try Bay. 



MESOGLOIA VIRESCENS.— GREEN 

 MESOGLOIA. 



Fronds eight to twelve inches high, gelatinous^ 

 with long simple or forked branches, bearing alter- 

 nate or second spreading ramuli. Colour olive- 

 green. The fronds are clothed with colourless 

 fibres, the same as in the above species. Annual. 

 Summer. Not uncommon. Sidmouth. Torquay. 

 Falmouth. Penzance. Bantry Bay. Appin, 

 Argyleshire. 



