Ser. RHoDOSPERME. Fam. Gloioeladice. 
Puate LVII. 
GLOIOSIPHONIA CAPILLARIS, Carm. 
Gen. Cuar. Frond cylindrical, tubular, gelatinous ; the periphery composed 
of a thin stratum of longitudinal, interlaced fibres, clothed externally 
with short, horizontal, branched, moniliform filaments. Fructification 
spherical masses of spores ( fave//idia), immersed in the moniliform 
filaments, to whose bases they are attached. GLolostpHonta (Carm.) 
—from yAoios, viscid, and ciper, a tube. 
GLolosIPHONIA capillaris. 
GLOIOSIPHONIA capillaris, Carm. Alg. Appin. MS. Berk. Gl. of Br. Alg. t. 17. 
f. 3. Harv. in Mack. Fl. Hib. part 3. p. 187. Harv. Man. p. 49. Me’ Calla, 
Alg. Hib. 
Mesoetora capillaris, 4g. Syst. p.51. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. vol.ii. p. 386. 
GiGaRTINA capillaris, Lamour. Ess. p. 
Giegartina lubrica, Lyngb. Hyd. Dan. p. 45. t.12 (Sec. 4g.). 
Fucus capillaris, Huds. Fl. Ang. p.591. With. vol. iv. p.115. Turn. Syn. 
vol. i. p.370. Hist. t. 31. H#. Bot. t. 2191. 
Has. On submarine rocks, growing in tide-pools, near low-water mark ; 
frequently cast on shore from deeper water. Annual. Summer. At 
Sheerness, and in Devonshire and Cornwall, Hudson. Scarborough, 
Sir T. Frankland. Anglesea, Rev. H. Davies. Sidmouth and Mead- 
foot, Mrs. Griffiths. Bantry Bay, Wiss Hutchins. Appin, Captain 
Carmichael. Glenarm, Dr. Drummond: _ Roundstone Bay, Mr. Me’ 
Calla. Howth and Balbriggan, Miss Gower. Saltcoats, on shale, 
Rev. D. Landsborough. Arran, D. Landsborough, Jun. Mount’s Bay, 
Mr. Raifs. Falmouth, Miss Warren. Jersey, Miss White and Miss 
Turner. 
Geoer. Distr. Atlantic shores of Europe, from Norway to Spain. 
Descr. Root a small disc. Fronds, several from the same base, from three to 
twelve inches in length, cylindrical, varying in diameter from a quarter of a 
line to a line and upwards, rising with an undivided stem which is thickest 
in the middle and gradually tapers to either end, being reduced at its apex 
to a capillary fineness. The stem is generally bare of branches for a short 
space above its base, varying in different specimens from half an inch to an 
inch and a half. From this pomt to its summit it is closely clothed with 
lateral branches, several times compounded until the ultimate ramuli are 
reduced to small setaceous processes. ‘The lower branches are longest, the 
upper gradually diminishing in length and in composition, and the outline 
is consequently ovate-oblong. All are more or less quadrifarious, giving a 
bushy character to the frond, and all taper at the base and are attenuated at 
the apex. They are either opposite or alternate. The frond is tubular, either 
empty or filled with a watery gelatine. Its walls are composed of closely 
interwoven, branching, longitudinal fibres, through whose joints runs a 
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