178 BRITISH MARINE ALG. 
the plant are’ but waifs and strays from their original home in tne north. 
I have never seen this species in capsular fruit, but tetraspores I have 
often observed. They are imbedded throughout the whole length of the 
little elliptical branchlets and ramuli. The colour is a rose pink ; the 
Fie. 164. Chylocladia rosea. 
interior of the frond is filled with a colourless watery juice, so that in 
preparing the plant for the herbarium, care must be observed in pressure, 
or the specimen will be destroyed or disfigured. 
Of all the red plants that have come under my notice during many 
seasons of seaweed gathering, I know of no species so variable in form and 
Fig, 165. (a) Halymenia ligulata, var. dichotoma; (b) H. ligulata, var. latifolia. 
ramification as the soft gelatinous plant named Halymenia ligulata, or the 
strap-shaped sea-membrane, for that is what its botanical name literally 
signifies. The numerous forms of this curious species are, however, as Dr. 
