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KALLYMENIA RENIFORMIS.— KIDNEY- 

 SHAPED KALLYMENIA. 



" Stem minute, cylindrical, suddenly expanding* 

 into a roundish or reniform, undivided (or accident- 

 ally cleft) frond, of a soft, thickish, membranaceous 

 substance, becoming* thinner in drying*, of a fine 

 blood-red colour, and either simple, or bearing 

 along" its margin lobes of a shape similar to the 

 frond. The fronds vary in diameter from one inch 

 to six, eight, and even fourteen inches. Favellidia 

 of small size, thickly scattered over the frond 5 

 tetraspores very minute, imbedded in the frond, 

 over which they are dispersed."— -Harv. Man., 2nd 

 ed., p. 150. Grows on rocks, &c., in deep pools, 

 near low water-mark. Rather rare. Perennial. 

 Summer and autumn. Niton, Isle of Wight. 

 Torbay and Ilfracombe, very fine, Mrs. Griffiths. 

 Whitesand Bay, near the Land's End, Cornwall. 

 Scilly Isles. Jersey. Glenarm. Antrim. Bangor, 

 County Down. Mouth of the Bann. Bantry Bay. 

 Coast of Kerry. Malbay and Kilkee, Orkney. 



