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THE SEAWEEDS 
Curiously, during the last year I have received specimens of what must 
be a second species, quite simple, 10 cm. high, with no trace of branching 
but with the structure and fructification of Bellotia , including the fluffy 
terminal heads. The plants were dredged by Mr. F. A. McNeill in eight 
fathoms of water, on the Barrier Reef. 
Fig. 54 . — Bellotia eriophorum. 
ENCYOTHALIA Harvey. 
Frond filiform, solid, alternately branched ; branches beset with 
penicillate setaceous ramuli. Receptacles one or two in each branch, 
cylindrical, investing median sections of the branch, and consisting 
of simple, vertical, densely crowded filaments, bearing unilocular sporangia 
laterally. Sporangia oblong, transversely striated. 
