SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. X.X111 



143. kaliformis; pyramidal, erect, with a leading stem, which is distended, 

 ^s constricted at distant intervals, and whorled with articulate-constricted 



branches ; ramuli opposite or whorled, inonilifonn ; capsules globose. 

 (Tab. CXLY.) 



144. reflexaj dull purple; lower branches cylindrical, arched, attaching them- 

 selves by discs ; secondary branches inonilifonn, spindle-shaped ; ramuli 

 few, scattered; capsules globose. (Tab. XLII.) 



145. parvula; slender, irregularly branched; ramuli scattered; branches con- 

 stricted at short intervals; capsules corneal, with a prominent orifice 

 (Tab. CCX.) 



146. articulata; frond tubular, strongly constricted throughout as if jointed, 

 much branched, di-trichotomous, fastigiate; the upper branches often 

 crowded; capsules obtusely conical. (Tab. CCLXXX1II.) 



Order 9. CORALLIXACi: 



\L\ I. COBALLINA. 



147. officinalis j upper articulations slightly obconical, round-edged, their upper 

 angles blunt. (Tab. CCXXil.) 



148. (elongata; " the lateral shoots of the branches slender and subulate, with 

 long, cylindrical articulations." — Johnet. Li///, p. 221.) 



I have seen no specimen of this, and have consequently been obliged to 

 omit figuring it. 



149. squamataj upper articulations obconical or obeordatc, compressed, two- 

 edged, their upper angles sharp and prominent. (Tab. CCT.) 



XLVII. JANIA. 



150. rubensj articulations cylindrical, unarmed, about four times as long as 

 broad. (Tab. CCLL1.) 



151. cornicuiataj articulations of the branches obconical, compressed, their 

 upper angles sharp and prominent. (Tab. CCXXXIV.) 



M.VIll. MELOBESIA. 



* Froiid thick and stony t branched or vnerueting. 



152. polymorphaj attached to rocks, encrusting, thick: the surface smooth or 

 tuberculated ; ceramidia minute, depressed. (Tab. ( ( I \l.\ 



I 53. calcarea; unattached, >hrul>-likc. much branched ; branches slender, spread- 

 ing, tapering to a blunt point. (Tab. CGXGI.) 

 15 1. fasciculata; Croud unattached, roundish or lobed, stony, much branched, 



fastigiate; branches Bolid, short, thick and crowded; apices depressed. 

 (Tab. IA\I\.) 



* * Frond thin, foliated, rtiaihj attached to t 



L55. apariciformis j frond unattached, -lobular, hollow ; foliations papery, 



erect, lolxil and siuuated. (TAB. LXXIII.) 

 [56. lichenoides; attached to rock-, free at the margins, foliaeeous. \ariou«dv 



lotted; foliations spreading, imbricated ; ee;ainidia conical, prominent. 



(Tab. ( < ( \l.\ Li 



* * * Frond minute, parasitic. 



Miembranacea; minute, dot-like, \.i\ thin, at length loulluuit 



oni oi two, depressed. (Tab. < '( !( \ l.\ 1 1 



