Ser. RHoposPERMEZ. Fam. Gasterocarpec. 
Prats LXIX. 
GINNANIA FURCELLATA, Mont. 
Gun. Cuar. Frond terete, dichotomous, membranaceo-gelatinous, traversed 
by a fibrous axis from which slender dichotomous horizontal filaments 
radiate towards the membranous periphery ; surface cellules hexagonal. 
Fructification, spherical masses immersed in the frond, affixed to the 
inner coating of the periphery, composed of radiating filaments, whose 
apical joints are finally converted into spores. Grnnanta (Mont.), mn 
honour of Count G. Ginnani, of Ravenna, author of a work on the 
productions of the Adriatic sea, published 1755. 
Gonnanta furcellata ; frond cylindrical, tender, uniformly dichotomous ; the 
segments obtuse. 
GInNANIA furcellata, Mont. Pl. Cell. Can. p. 162. Endl. 3rd Suppl. p. 40. 
Hatymenta furcellata, 4g. Sp. Alg. vol.i. p. 212. Ag. Syst. p. 244.  Grev. 
Alg. Brit. p.163. Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. p. 308. Harv. in Mack. Fl. Hib. 
‘ part 3. p. 189. Wyatt, Alg. Danm. no. 79. J. Ag. Alg. Medit. p. 98. 
Hook. fil. et Harv. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. p. 548. 
Myre tomivom furcellatum, Avitz. Phyc. Gen. p. 393. t. 73. f. 1. 
Unva furcellata, Turn. in Ser. Journ. 1800-2. p. 301. #. Bot. t. 1881. 
Uva interrupta, Pow. Encycl. vol. vii. p.171. D.C. Fl. Fran. vol. vi. p. 3. 
DvumonmIa triquetra, Lamour. Ess. p. 45. 
Coraopsis dichotoma, Suhr. Bot. Zet (1839). p. 70. f. 44. 
Var. 8, subcostata, broader than usual, with a stronger nerve, and here and 
there constricted. 
HatyMEN1a furcellata, 8. subcostata, J. 49. dig. Medit. p. 98. 
Has. On rocks, stones, oyster shells, &c., from low water mark to eight or 
ten fathoms water. Annual. Summer. Rather rare. Eastern and 
southern shores of England, frequent. Bantry Bay, Miss Hutchins. 
Malbay, VW. H. H. Glenarm, Wiss Davison. Howth, Miss Gower. 
Roundstone Bay, Mr. Me Calla. Strangford Lough, Mr. Thompson. 
Belfast Bay, Mr. G. Hyndman. _ Not found in Scotland? 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic shores of Europe. Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. 
Cape of Good Hope. New Zealand. Chili. Sandwich Islands. 
Descr. Root, a small scutate disc. Fronds subsolitary, or several growing 
together, from two to eight or ten inches in length, and from a line to 
nearly half an inch in diameter, cylindrical or subcompressed, tapering to 
the base, repeatedly and regularly @ichotomous, the furcations of equal 
length, and the tufts perfectly fastigiate. pices generally obtuse and 
rounded, occasionally lengthened out to a bluntish or subacute point. 
Sometimes the frond is constricted in several places as if jointed, and occa- 
sionally when the branches become accidentally truncated, young frondlets 
