corallinace:e. 



Okdbb 9. CORA LUNA OEM 

 MM. ( ORALLDtA, 



117. officinalis {The medicinal Coralline) \ decompound-pin- 

 nate ; Lower articulations cylindrical, twice as Long as broad ; 

 upper Blightly obconical, round-edged, their upper angles 



blunt-, ultimate ramuli cylindrical, obtuse, / 



10. jp. 805. (Atlas, PL XWlll. Kg. l L8. 

 Corallina anglica, I 

 Hut,. On rocks between tide-marks, extending throughout the 



whole of the littoral zone, generally growing in rock-pools. 



Perennial. Winter and Bpring. Abundant. 

 On our own shores this plant puts on bo many sportive 

 appearances, thai it would be easy to form from its varie- 

 ties numerous species, as distinct as some that have been 

 founded on single fragments coming from abroad. Colour 

 lias been assumed as a character in describing these plants. 

 Nevertheless it is notorious that the colours of all coral- 

 lines are remarkably fugacious, and that all quickly bleach, 

 under the influence of the weather, to a milky whiteness. 

 The form of the joints, almost the only tangible character, 

 is subject to very wild variations, so that it is almost im- 

 possible, without a very full suite of specimens, to lix the 

 limits of any of these plants. Our figure represents the 

 stunted variety which occurs near high-water mark. 



118. elongata {The elongated Coralline); lateral shoots of the 

 branches -lender and subulate, with long cylindrical articula- 

 tions, Joltnst. Lith.p. 221. 



Hah. ? 



I have seen no specimen of this, and have consequently 

 been obliged to omit figuring it. 



119. squamata (T^ scaled Coralline); decompound-pinnate j 

 lower articulations cylindrical, scarcely longer than their 

 breadth; upper obconical or obcordate, compressed, two- 

 edged, their upper angles sharp and prominent ; ultimate 

 ramuli verv -lender, acute, Parkinson, 1296. (Atlas, PL 

 \\\iii. Pig, ; 



Hah. South coast of England and West of Ireland. On sub- 

 marine rocks, at the extremity of low-water mark. Peren- 

 nial. Bummer. 

 This Bpeciefl was noticed at an early period, and has been 



generally kepi separate from C. officinalis, which it closely 

 resembles, by mosl authors who have written on the bud- 



