THE MARINE BOTANIST. 95 



MYRIOTRICHIA. 



Name, numberless and a hai7\ 

 Fila7nents hair-like, flaccid, jointed, beset on all 

 sides witli simple spine-like ramuli, clothed with 

 long" colourless fibres. Fructification. Elliptical 

 spores. 



MYEIOTEICHIA CLAV^FORMIS. — CLUB 

 SHAPED MYRIOTRICHIA. 



Fronds, half an inch long-, tufted, flaccid. " Stem 

 densely beset with quadrifarious ramuli, w^hich 

 gradually increase from the base upwards, giving- 

 the frond a club-shaped figure." Parasitical on 

 Chorda lomentaria. Annual. Summer. Dis- 

 covered by Miss Hutchins forty years since, at 

 Bantry Bay. Cable Island, near Youghal. Bal- 

 briggan, Howth. Ballantrae, Ayrshire. Torquay. 

 Falmouth Bay. Mousehole, near Penzance. Jersey. 



