ramuli: articulations as Long as broad; Bilicules 

 linear-lanceolate, attenuate, densely Btriate transvi 

 minating the principal branches and ramuli, H 

 j. p. 61. (Atlas, PL XXI. Fig. 94.) 

 i Orkney, Parasitica] on Algse between tide-m 

 Nearly related to K. littoralis, rather than to 11. silicu- 

 losus, and differing chiefly in the greater Luxuriance of the 

 frond, and the differenl form of the fructification. T. • 

 fructification, however, must be regarded more as an 

 •ration of thai of JS. littoralis than as essentially 

 different. In K. littoralis the apices of the branches 

 at beyond the portion converted into fructification, 

 and the latter therefore appears as it' w were immersed in 

 the branch ; here, when tne ramuli are fertile the whole of 

 the upper portion of the 1 ramulus becomes the fruit. 



92. granulosus (The granulous Ectocarpus) ; filaments olive, 



the principal divisions Blightly entangled : branch a 

 feathery ; the lesser branches and ramuli opposite, spread- 

 ing; utricles elliptical, dark-coloured, sessile on the ramuli, 

 • Ag. St/st. p. 163. (Atlas, PL XXII. Fig. ( Jo.) 

 Conferva granulosa, E. Bot. 



Hah. English and Irish coasts. On rocks; also on Corallines 

 and various other Alga?, in rock-pools between tide-marks. 

 Annual. May and June. Not uncommon. 

 A well-marked and large-growing species, by no means 

 uncommon on van-Mis parts of the coasts, usually gr 

 on the smaller Algse in tide-pools, though occasionally 

 flourishing on the fronds of Laminaria. The op] - 

 branches and ramuli. bearing dark-coloured elliptical 

 utricles on their upper side, readily distinguish this plant 

 from any of its British congeners. The species which 

 most nearly approach it. are K. sphcerophorus and ./■.'. 

 brachiatus, but both these differ in fructification. In 

 some varieties the ramuli are not regularly opposite. 



93. sphserophoras (The warted TSctocarpus) j filaments 

 der, short, densely tufted, much branched ; upper bra 

 patent, opposite or in fours, bearing patent, opposite rai 

 spores globose, Bessile, either opposite to each other or to a 

 branchlet, Ca\ .. B rv. in Hook. I'-r.Fl. v. 2 



PL XX. Pig. 89.) 

 JIah. Parasitical on the Bmaller Alga?, between tide-marks. An- 

 nual. Summer. Rare 

 This species is most readily distinguished from the fol- 

 lowing by the difference in the fruit, ti bj - in 12, 



