Ser. RooposPERME. Fam. Spongiocarpee. 
PuaTte XX. 
PHYLLOPHORA BRODIATI, 7 4. 
Gen. Cuan. Frond stipitate, rigid-membranaceous, proliferous, nerveless or 
with a vanishing nerve, cellular; cells minute, angular, gradually 
smaller toward the surface. ructification of two kinds, on distinct 
plants ;—1, prominent tubercles (nemathecia) seated on the frond, com- 
posed of radiating, moniliform filaments, whose lower articulations are 
at length dissolved into spores (?). 2, ¢etraspores collected into soni, 
either toward the apex of the frond, or on proper leaflets. PHyYLLo- 
PHORA—from @vAdor, a leaf, and gopéw, to bear: a proliferous frond. 
PuytiopHora Brodiazi; stem cylindrical, filiform, branched, the branches 
expanding into oblong, simple or forked, flat, membranaceous frond- 
lets, which are proliferous from their extremity; tubercles sessile on 
the tips of the segments. 
PaytiopHora Brodie, J. 49. Alg. Medit. p.93. Endl. 3rd Suppl. p. 38. 
Coccory.us Brodiei, Kitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 412. 
Cuonprvs Brodiei, Grev. Aly. Brit. p.133. Hook. Brit. Fl. vol.ui. p. 303. 
Mack. Fl. Hib. part 3. p. 202. Harv. Man. p. 78. 
SpHmrococcts Brodizi, 4g. Syn. p. 27. Lyngb. Hyd. Dan. p. 11. t. 3. 
Ag. Sp. Alg. vol. i. p. 239. Ag. Syst. p. 213. Grev. Fl. Edin. p. 295. 
De essEria Brodizei, Lamex. Ess. p. 37. 
Fucus Brodizi, Turn. Hist. t. 72. EF. Bot. t.1966. Fl. Dan. t. 1476. 
Var. 8. simpler; stem short expanding into an oblong, simple or once 
forked, rose coloured frond ; sorus elliptical, composed of tetraspores. 
Cuonpvets Brodizi, 8. simplex, Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 133. Hook. Br. FI. l.c. 
Harv. Man.l.c. Wyatt, Alg. Brit. no. 121. 
Fucus membranifolius, var. roseus, Turn. t. 74. f. m. 
Has. On rocks in the sea. Rare. Perennial? Winter and Spring. 
Eastern coast of Scotland, in several places. Lossiemouth, Wr. Brodie. 
Mouth of the Bann, Co. Derry, Mr. D. Moore. At Bangor, on Belfast 
Bay, Mr. W. Thompson. Var.8, Devonshire, Mrs. Griffiths. Malahide, 
Mr. Me’ Calla. 
Geoer. Distr. Baltic Sea, Mertens. Denmark, Lyngbye. German Ocean. At- 
lantic coast of France, rare. 
Descr. Root a small disc; in 8, a widely expanding disc. Frond 2-8 inches 
high; the stem cylindrical, variable in length, simple or branched, the 
branches expanding into oblong, flat, forked or simple, wedge-shaped leaves, 
which vary in breadth from two to five lines, and in length from one to 
three inches. The segments are somewhat truncate, often proliferous from 
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