Ser. RHopOSPERMES. Fam. Spongiocarpea. 
Prats CCCX. 
PHYLLOPHORA PALMETTOIDES, 7 4. 
Grn. Cuan. Frond stipitate, rigid, membranaceous, proliferous, nerveless, 
or with a vanishing nerve, cellular; cells minute, angular, gradually 
smaller towards the surface. Fructification, 1, tubercles ( favellidia ?) 
scattered over the frond containing masses of minute spores; 2, warts 
(wemathecia) seated on the frond, composed of radiating, moniliform 
filaments, whose lower articulations are at length changed into spores; 
3, tetraspores, collected into sori, either towards the apex of the frond 
or in proper leaflets. PuytiopHora (Girev.),—from voy, a leaf, 
and gopew, to dear. 
PuytiopHora Palmettoides; root a widely-expanded disc; stem cylin- 
drical, filiform, simple or branched, expanding into an oblong, 
uarrow-obovate or cuneate, simple or once-forked, rose-coloured 
frond, which is sometimes proliferous ; sorus of tetraspores solitary, 
transverse, elliptical, near the apex of the frond, immersed in its 
substance. 
PuyLLopnora Palmettoides, J. Ag. in litt. Harv. Man. ed. 2. p. 144. 
Puy iopHora Brodiei, 6. simplex, Harv. Phyc. Br. t. xx. f. 2, 3, 4. 
Cuonprus Brodiei, 8. simplex, Grev. Aly. Brit. p. 133. Hook. Br. Fl. 
vol. ii. p. 303. Harv. Man. ed. 1. p.78. Wyatt, Alg. Danm. no. 121. 
Fucus membranifolius, va. roseus, Turn. Hist. t. 72. f. m. 
Has. On rocks near low-water mark. Perennial. Winter and spring. 
Rare. Sidmouth and Torquay, Mrs. Griffiths and Miss Cutler. 
Plymouth and Whitsand Bay, Rev. VW. S. Hore. 
Grocer. Distr. South coast of England. Mediterranean Sea. 
Descr. oot a widely-spreading, fleshy disc, ‘an inch or more in diameter. 
Fronds numerous from the same disc, growing in a scattered manner, two 
to three or four inches in length, rising with a filiform stem to the height 
of an inch or an inch and a half; stem then compressed and ending in a 
cuneate or narrow-obovate, obtuse, simple or forked lamina; sometimes the 
frond is deeply forked, sometimes only emarginate; the segments fre- 
quently proliferous from the apex, or contracted in the middle, and again 
enlarged. When the tips are injured, the torn edge often bears numerous 
leaflets irregularly. Zudbercles I have not seen. Tetr aspores forming dense, 
immersed, transverse, oval sori in the centre of the lamina, very amie. 
Colour a bright rosy red. Substance membranous, but rather rigid, not 
adhering to paper, except after long soaking. 
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