94 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



land. Frequent on the south coast of the former, 

 Bantry Bay. Shores of Cork. 



E, SpJicerophorus, Grows in fine tufts^ mostly on 

 Ptilota sericea, between tide-marks. Colour, 

 olive or yellowish brown. Tufts from one to three 

 inches high, upper branches spreading*. Spores 

 globose, sessile, either opposite to each other or to 

 a branchlet. Annual. Summer. Rather rare. 

 Sidmouth. Torquay. Mount's Bay, Mousehole, 

 Sennen Cove, and the Land's End, in Cornwall. 

 Milford. Menai Bridge on Conferva rupestris. In 

 a narrow darkened chasm, on the east side of Eda, 

 Orkney on P. sericea and O. rupestris, Appin, 

 Argyleshire, on C. rupestris. Bantry Bay. 

 U. hrachiatus. Grows parasitical on Rhodymenia 

 palmata. From two to four inches high, very 

 feathery and much branched. Spores imbedded in 

 the branchlets. Annual. Summer. Rare. Torquay, 

 Mrs. Griffiths. Mount Edgecumbe, Rev. W. S. 

 Hore. Cley, Norfolk Coast. 



