Ser. RHoposPERME. Fam. Delesseriee. 
Piate CCII. 
NITOPHYLLUM PUNCTATUM, Grev. 
Grn. Coan. Frond membranaceous, reticulated, rose-red (rarely purplish), 
irregularly cleft, veinless, or furnished with irregular veins towards 
the base. ructification two-fold, on distinct plants; 1, convex 
tubercles (coccidia) immersed in the frond, and containing a mass of 
spores ; 2, ¢etraspores, grouped into definite sor? or spots, variously 
scattered over the frond. NiropHyiium (Grev.),—corruptly formed 
from nitor, to shine, and gudor, a leaf. 
Niropnyitum puactatum; frond very thin and delicate, destitute of ner- 
vures, either regularly dichotomous, or cleft into two or three 
principal segments, whose margins are fringed with dichotomous 
lobes; axils rounded; spots of granules large, oblong, scattered over 
the whole surface of the frond. 
NivrorpHyYLiuM punctatum, Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 79. t. 12. Hook. Br. Fl. 
vol. ii. p. 287. Harv. in Mack. Fl. Hib. part 3. p.192. Harv. Man. p. 57. 
Hook. fil. et Harv. Lond. Journ. vol. vi. p. 403. 
AGLAIOPHYLLUM punctatum, Mont. Endl. 3rd Suppl. p. 52. Kiitz. Phyc. 
Gen. p. 443. 
WorMSKIOLDIA punctata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iv. p. 331. 
DELESSERIA punctata, 4g. Sp. Aly. vol. i. p.186. Ay. Syst. p. 252. Hook. 
Fl. Scot. part 2. p.101. Grev. Fl. Edin. p. 294. 
De eEssERIA ulvoides, Hook. Fl. Scot. part 2. p. 101. 
Fucus punctatus, With. Br. Ar. (Ed. 6) vol. iv. p. 120. #. Bot. t. 1575. 
Turn. Hist.t. 71. 
Fucus ulvoides, Zurn. Hist. t. 80. 
Uva punctata, Stack. in Linn. Trans. vol. iii. p. 236. 
Var. 8. ocellatum ; frond with a roundish outline, cleft nearly to the base, 
the segments repeatedly dichotomous, linear. 
NiroPpHyLium punctatum, £. ocellatum, Harv. Man. p. 57. 
NrToPpHYLLUM ocellatum, Grev. dig. Brit. p. 78. Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. p. 286. 
Wyatt, Alg. Danm.no.15. J. Ag. Alg. Medit. p. 156. 
AGLAIOPHYLLUM ocellatum, Mont. in Zanard. Saggio., &c. p.46. Endl. 3rd 
Suppl. p.52. Kiitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 443. 
DELEsSERIA ocellata, Lam. Ess. p. 125. 4g. Sp. Alg. vol. i. p. 187. Ag. 
Syst. p. 252. Grev. Crypt. t. 347. 
WormskIopia ocellata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iv. p. 331. 
HAtyMENIA ocellata, Duby, Bot. Gall. p. 945. 
Fucus ocellatus, Zam. Diss. t. 32. 
Fucus granateus, Lam. Diss. t. 33. f. 3, 4. 
Var. y. crispatum ; frond thickish, cleft nearly to the base, the segments 
regularly dichotomous, linear, with the margin strongly curled. 
