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IX. ALGJ5. 
[. Laurencia . 
larger ; pinnules very short, cuneate or clavate, crenate, or multifid with the 
lobes turbinate. Tetraspores in the club-shaped tips of the pinnules. — 
L. botryioides , Harv. Ner. Austr. 82, in part. 
Bay of Islands, J. I). H. ; Parimaliu, Colenso. 
4. L. distichophylla ?, J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 762 FI. N. Z. ii. 234. 
Frond 2-3 in. high, crimson rose-red or purple, densely tufted, compressed, 
distichously decompound, rarely more simple, ovate in outline ; rachis straight, 
dilated upwards ; pinnae usually opposite, spreading, flat ; pinnules cylindric, 
obtuse, simple or again divided. Conceptacles sessile on the branches of the 
pinnules, ovoid-urceolate, acuminate. Tetraspores fasciate below the tips of 
ultimate pinnules. 
Bay of Islands,/.!). U. ; East coast, Colenso ; Watemata, By all. — Apparently the same 
as J. Agardh’s plant, of which the locality is unknown. 
** Frond terete ; branchlets cylindric , narrowed at the base. 
5. L. csespitosa, lamour. ; — FI. Antarct. i. 184. Very similar to 
L. pinnatifida, and usually regarded as a variety of that plant, but darker- 
coloured and more terete. — Harv. Ner. Austr. 82. 
Lord Auckland’s group, J. B. II. (Chili, Falkland, Atlantic.) 
6. L. gracilis, Hook.f. and Harv. Fl.N.Z. ii. 234. Frond tall, very 
slender, filiform, setaceous, flexuous, excessively and pinnately branched ; 
branches elongate, alternate, simple or again branched ; branchlets alternate, 
horizontal and secund, short or long, cylindric, capitate, in. long. — 
Harv. Ner. Austr. 84 ; J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 746. 
Hawke’s Bay, Colenso. 
7. L. papillosa, Grev.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 234. Frond dark purple, fading 
to green, densely tufted, 4-6 in. high, 2-pinnate, terete; pinnae close-set, 
elongate, simple, opposite and alternate, studded with spreading, simple or 
cleft, obtuse, warted pinnules, which are 1 in. long and depressed or 
perforated at the apex. — Harv. Ner. Austr. 84; J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 756. 
Fuchs thyrsoides, Turn. Hist. Fuc. t. 19. 
New Zealand, Banks and Solander. (Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.) 
8. L. Forsteri, Grev.; — FI. N. Z. ii. 234. Frond pink, fading to 
orange, terete, filiform, nearly equal throughout, much dichotomously and 
pinnately branched ; branches somewhat fastigiate, the smaller spreading and 
subdicliotomous ; branchlets spreading, cylindric, dichotomous, alternate or 
secund.— Harv. Ner. Austr. 85; J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 744. Fucus, Turn. Hist, 
Fuc. t. 77. 
New Zealand, Forster. (Australia and Tasmania.) 
9. Xj. virgata, J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 752 ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 234. Frond 6-12 
in. high, red-purple, about as stout as a pigeon’s quill, pyramidal in outline, 
terete, pinnately branched in all directions; lower branches 4-5 in. long, 
elongate, racemose, and branchlets more or less regularly opposite and whorled. 
Conceptacles crowded, spherico-ovoid. 
