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then becoming clubshaped and somewhat inflated, from half an inch to an inch long, 
crowned with a peltate horizontal lamina, which is either subentire or sharply dentate 
at the margin. In young specimens or on young branches the peltate leaves are found 
flat and thin, their upper and lower surfaces forming one substance ; but more com- 
monly the centre of the leaf becomes inflated or vesicated, and then is formed a compound 
top-shaped flat-topped body, half vesicle, half leaf, which is characteristic of the genus. 
Receptacles dichotomous, much branched, shrubby, their branches verrucose. Colour 
when growing a pale olive, but in the herbarium changing to a dark brown or black. 
a Substance, when dry very hard and rigid. 
A common plant in tropical seas, both in the eastern and western hemispheres. Mr. 
Ashmead obtained fine specimens at Key West, but it appears to be of rare occurrence. 
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III * CYSTOPHYLLUM. 
(Generic character the same as that of Cystoseira, except that the air-vessels are 
confined to the ultimate ramuli, which are simple and filiform.) 
1. Cystophyllum geminatum, Ag. ; stem ; fronds elongate, filiform, un- 
armed, decompound-pinnate ; branches issuing from all sides, geminate ; vesicles solitary 
in the ramuli near the summit, oval, tipped with an excurrent point ; receptacles 
paniculate, warted, attenuate, often tipped with a vesicle. J. Ag. Sp. Alg. 1, p. 232. 
Cystoseira thyrsigera , Post, and Rupr. 111. Alg. 13, t. 38,/. 4. 
Hab. Banks’ Island, North Western America, Mr. Menzies , 1787. (v. s.) 
In Mr. Menzies’ Herbarium, now preserved at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, is 
a specimen of this plant, marked C. trinodis in Mr. Menzies’ handwriting. Two 
branches are laid on one piece of paper. The largest is about 10 inches long, as 
thick as sparrow’s quill, smooth, decompound, pinnate and ovato-lanceolate in circum- 
scription. The branchlets are mostly geminate, filiform, alternately decompound ; 
their lesser divisions also subgeminate. Vesicles oval, 1| lines long, scarcely a line 
wide, either solitary in the filiform ramuli, about the middle or a little beyond it, or two 
in the ramulus, the second one terminal, apiculate, and removed by a rather long pedi- 
cel from the first. Receptacles lanceolate, 2-3 lines long, verrucose, apiculate, often 
with a slender beak nearly as long as the receptacle, and sometimes two receptacles occur 
on the same ramulus. The upper branches are very dense. 
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8. Fucus serratus , Linn. ; frond flat, dichotomous, midribbed, serrated, without air- 
vessels; receptacles flat, terminating the branches, serrated. J. Ag. Sp. Alg. 1, p. 211. 
Kiitz. Sp. Alg. p. 590. Turn. Hist. t. 90. E. Bot. t. 1221. Harv. Phyc. Brit, 
t. 47, Sfc. 
