86 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



Beachy Head. Several places in South Devon. 

 Land's End. Ilfracombe. Near Caernarvon, North 

 Wales. Wicklow. Balbriggan. Howth. Belfast 

 Bay. Frith of Forth. Kilbride. Orkney. Alding- 

 ham, Lancashire, and the Island of Walney, Miss 

 E. Hodgson. 



SPHACELARIA CIREHOSA.-TUFTED 

 SPHACELAPJA. 



A very variable species, smaller than the last, 

 tufted and branched. In the var. cegagropila, the 

 branches are thickly set with spine-like pinnae, 

 ^^ formings a dense round ball." This form is com- 

 mon at Falmouth, and is found on the west of 

 Ireland. The var. patentissima has the ramuli 

 irregular, and issuing at right angles. Found on 

 the shores of Bute. A small and dwarf variety, 

 not above half-an-inch long, grows on the 

 stems of Desmarestia aculeata^ of this I have 

 received examples from Falmouth. In the usual 

 form of the plant it grows in star-like tufts, or 

 closely invests the stems of algae, and somewhat 



