Fig. 218. NACCAKIA WIGGH. 



Colour. A delicate^ briglit rose-red. 



Substance. Tender and elatinous; adliering closely to paper. 



Character of Frond. Slender; thread-sliaped [Jlliform) ; mucli branclied. 

 Stem undivided or once forked; set with very long_, wavy^ horizontally- 

 spread^ alternate brandies^ all tapering to the end. These re-branched 

 with a second_, finer set of similar character. Both stem and branches 

 clothed with very short slender branchlets_, tapering at both ends, 

 which spring all round the stem. Eoot a disc. Internal structure, a 

 slender tube in the centre, surrounded by large cells; the whole en- 

 - circled in cortical branchletee^^s immersed in gelatine. 



Measurement. From 6 to 12 inches long. 



Fructification. Only one kind known. Spores immersed in centre of the 

 fringing branchlets, which are then swollen (see figure of a magnified 

 bit). 



Habitat. Yarmouth and the southern shores of England. South and west 

 of Ireland. Isle of Man. West of Scotland. Thrown up from deep 

 water. Very rare. 



Fig. 219. GLOIOSIPHONIA CAPILLAEIS. 



Colour. Kose-red; though scarcely when first gathered. 



Substance. Exceedingly gelatinous; loose and slippery-feeling. 



Character of Frond. Long, cylindrical, tubular stems, profusely branched; 

 bushy; tufted; each forming a more or less lanceolate, general outline. 

 Stems undivided, delicately tapering to both ends; set with opposite, 

 often quadrifarious (springing from four points of the stem) branches ; 

 which are bushily rebranched with repeatedly divided branchlets. 

 Branchlets very slender or thickened with fructification; springing 

 from all round the stems. Eoot a disc; throwing up several fronds. 



Measurement. From 3 to 12 inches long. 



Fructification. Only one kind known. Round masses of bright-red spores 

 immersed in the (then) swollen branchlets. 



Habitat. Our shores generally. Filey, Largs, &c. In tide-pools, near low- 

 water mark. Yery rare generally. Common in Jersey. 



Whimsical in its appearance and c^i^sappearance in different seasons, but there 

 is a large, transparent, not very deep pool, on the lowermost ledges of Filey 

 Bridge, north, where it may generally be gathered by those who will wade in 

 to reach it! 



