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spreading on each side, and thickly set with minute 

 slender ramuli. The structure of the stem and 

 branches is ceUular, while the ramuli are composed 

 of minute gelatinous filaments, to which the spores 

 are attached : when these are present, the ramuli 

 become much swollen. Substance tender and gela- 

 tinous, adhering very well to paper. Colour a fine 

 rose-red, given out to ' fresh water. Very rare 

 Usually cast ashore ii'om deep water. Annual. 

 Summer. Yarmouth. Folkestone. Brighton. Ex- 

 mouth, Mrs. Gulson. Sidmouth. Torquay. Jer- 

 sey, Miss Turner. Belfast Bay. Wicklow. Bantry 

 Bay. Kilkee, co. Clare. 



GLOIOSIPHONIA. 



Name meaning viscid tube, in allusion to the gelatinous- 

 tubed frond. 



Frond cylindrical, filiform, tubular, somewhat 



gelatinous ; outward surface consisting of very 



minute jointed filaments. Fructification : globules 



of spores (favellidia) imbedded and attached to 



the filaments of the surface. 



