

CHAPTER III. 



Sub-class.— MELANOSPOR.E. 

 Order.— DICTYOTE. E. 

 Genus.— ZOXARIA* Ag. 



ZONARIA TOURNEFORTII, LAM. 



^V^VTAW plants of this species have been dis. 

 <S* tributed under the name of Z. fiava. It is 

 .imon in southern California, species of 



this genus an- in aH tropical and sub-tropical & 

 Jt grows from a short, flattened stem, a widely- 

 spreading, Hal. fin-shaped frond, two to four inches 

 high, with obst lire concentric bands of a darker color 

 on the olive green of the plant. The extreme rounded 



* Zonaru belted or zoned. 



