W.S. Hore, who had the good fortune about the same time to: 
discover a new species (G. Devoniensis) of this charming genus, 
which is already figured in our first volume. I delayed the pub- 
lication of the present novelty in the hope that its fructification 
might be detected on British specimens; but this hope having 
hitherto been disappointed, I do not wish further to delay intro- 
ducing so interesting a plant to British botanists, although my 
figure wants a representation of the fruit. I could certainly have 
figured fruzt from an exotic specimen, had I thought it expedient 
to do so. The favelle resemble those of G@. setacea, but are 
raised on much shorter peduncles 
From G. setacea this plant may, at once, be known by its 
larger size, its comparatively shorter jomts, and more lubricous 
substance ; but especially by the very obtuse, cylindrical, upper 
ramuli, which do not taper to a point, but are of equal diameter 
throughout. From G. corallina, which mm many respects it 
resembles, its cylindrical articulations and different mflorescence 
distinguish it. 
G. secundiflora, though first noticed as a variety by Bonne- 
maison, was not well understood until the younger Agardh 
pointed out its characters, and clearly distinguished it from G. 
setacea and G. corallina, to one or other of which it had formerly 
been referred. It is one of the most common of the genus in 
the Mediterranean, from several parts of which sea I have received 
specimens. It occurs less commonly on the coasts of France 
and Spain, and reaches its northern limit on the coast of England, 
in the same locality that produces the equally southern Steno- 
gramme and Carpomitra. Dr. Hooker brought from the Falk- 
land Islands specimens which we at first referred to this species ; 
but which, as they offer some points of difference, we now regard, 
provisionally, as a distinct species (G. antarctica). 
Fig. 1. GRIFFITHSIA SECUNDIFLORA :—of the natural size. 2. Apex of a fila- 
ment. 3. Part of the same, with root-like ramuli :—magnijfied. 
