220 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



broader specimens are frequently constricted as if 

 tied^ when the frond assumes a jointed appearance. 

 The fi'uctification appears scattered over the froiid 

 like minute grains of sand. Grows on rocks and 

 stones in the sea. Rare. Eastern and southern 

 shores of Eng'land. Sherringham, Norfolk. South- 

 ampton. Budleigh Salterton. Exmouth. Tor- 

 quay. Mount's Bay, Cornwall. All round the 

 Irish coast, but nowhere common. Howth. Strang*- 

 ford Lough. Belfast Bay. Glenarm. Bantry 

 Bay. Miltown Malbay. Eoundstone Bay. 



KALLYMENIA. 



Name meaning beautiful membrane. 

 Frond blood-red, ribless, expanded, of a thickish 

 membranaceous substance; structure consisting of 

 three distinct strata, the inner of filaments, the 

 middle of large round cells, and the outer of 

 minute ones. Frtictification : 1. masses of spores 

 (favellidia), partly immersed in the frond j 2. 

 scattered tetraspores. 



