Fig. 218. NACCARIA WIGGII. 
Colour, A delicate, bright rose-red. 
Substance. Tender and gelatinous ; adhering closely to paper. 
Character of Frond. Slender ; thread-shaped {filiform) ; much branched. Stem undivided or 
once forked ; set with very long, wavy, horizontally-spread, alternate branches, 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. Root a disc. 
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 CAPILLARIS. 
Colour. Rose-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 re-branched with repeatedly divided 
branchlets. Branchlets very slender or thickened with fructification ; springing from 
all round the stems. Root a disc ; throwing up several fronds. 
Measurement. From 3 to 12 inches long. 
Fmctification, 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. 
Very rare generally. Common in Jersey. 
Whimsical in its appearance and disappearance 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 he gathered hy those who vdll wade in to reach it ! 
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