SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES. XXI 



(P. Grevillii, Harv. Man. ed. 2. p. 86, I now consider to be merely a 

 variety of this species, more sanguineous than usual.) 



116. Carmichaeliana ; stem inarticulate, percurrent, flexuous, rigid; branches 

 lateral, divaricating ; ramuli scattered, very patent, spinoso-multifid, articu- 

 late ; articulations as long as broad, three-striate. (Tab. CCCX1X.) 



117. fibrillosaj pale straw-colour or brown; stems inarticulate, marked with 

 sinuous veins, robust, much branched ; branches articulated near the apices 

 only, beset with slender, finely divided, articulated ramuli ; tips copiously 

 fibrillose ; articulations rather longer than their breadth ; siphons four. 

 (Tab. CCC1I.) 



* * * Primary tubes 7 ; stem inarticulate. 



118. Brodiaei; stems inarticulate, robust; branches virgate, clothed with pen- 

 cilled, multifid, flaccid, articulated ramuli ; articulations of the ramuli 3-4- 

 striate, lomrer than ; broad ; siphons seven ; cajjsules ovate, pedicellate. 

 (Tab. CXCY.) 



* * * * Primary tubes (>-7 ; frond jointed throughout. 



119. variegataj brownish-purple, setaceous, rigid below, ilaeeid and capillary 

 above, dichotomous, the lower axils patent; branches decompound ; lower 

 articulations very short, middle twice as long as broad, each marked with 

 three broad, oblong cells, separated by pellucid spaces; siphon- 

 capsules ovate, stalked. (Tab. CLV.) 



***** Ptimary tubes 8-20 ; frond jointed throughout. 



120. obscuraj densely matted, short; filaments creeping, throwing up erect, 

 simple, secund branches; articulations short. (Tab. Cil. J.\ 



121. simulans; slender, bushy, branched from the base; branches patent, de- 

 compoundly but irregularly pinnate ; ramuli subulate ; articulations once 

 and half as long as broad; siphons about twelve; capsules ovate, sessile. 

 (Tab. CCLXXVlII.) 



122. nigrescens; robust, rigid, and rough with broken branches below, much 

 branched and flaccid above; branches decompoundly pinnate; ramuli 

 subulate; lower articulations short, upper once and half a- 1 ml: as broad ; 

 siphons about twenty; capsules sessile, ovate. (Tais. (CIA \ VII.) 



123. affinis; filaments elongate, rigid below, flaccid above; branches naked at 

 the base, multifid and decompound pinnate above ; ramuli very erect, su- 

 bulate; articulation- multi>triate, the low times a- long as broad, 

 upper gradually shorter; siphons about sixteen. (Tail ('('(III.) 



1 -.» l . subulifera; setaceous, flexuous, irregularly much branched: branches 

 alternately decompound, spreading, the lesser divisions virgate; ramuli 



scattered, subulate, patent ; siphons about thirteen. (Tab. CCXXVII.) 

 125. atrorubescens . Betaceous, dark browni-h-red, rigid, alternately braenhed; 

 branches long, verj ereci, once or twice compounded; ramuli scattered, 



tapering to base and apt x, simple or divided; articulations of stem 2 

 tii: _■ as broad, of branches shorter, many-striate. the stria curved ; 



siphons about twelve; capsules broadly ovate. (TAB. ( I.W1I.) 

 IMi. furcellata; tilaineiits elongated, AeXUOUB, dichotomous; axils broad, 

 rounded; ramuli multifid; articulations ;; 5 time- longer than broad. 

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[27, fastipiata; rigid, setaceous, dichotomo articulations shorter 



than their breadth ; siphon- L6-18 ( 1 LB C< \< l\ ) 



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