Nitophallum.~\ 
IX. ALGiE. 
685 
Sori large, oblong, scattered over the whole frond. — Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. 202, 
203 ; J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 659. 
Campbell’s Island, J. D. H. (Tasmania, N. Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.) — Specimens 
imperfect. 
5. N. denticulatum, Harv. in FI. N. Z. ii. 241. Prond subsessile or 
narrowed below into a cuneate stipes, above flabelliform, dichotomously 
branched, or undivided or deeply divided ; margin erose and crisped ; tips 
obtuse ; stipes sometimes produced upwards and branched. Sori ovate or 
oblong, excessively numerous, scattered over the whole frond. 
Maketu, Chapman ; Blind Bay, Davies ; Cook’s Straits and East coast, Lyall. 
6. 3ST. variolosum, Harv. in FI. N. Z. ii. 241. Prond rose-red, 2-3 
in. long, shortly stipitate, below nan-owed into a thickened cuneate stipes, 
above dichotomously palmate-partite ; segments decompoundly multifid, ob- 
tuse, upper narrower, covered with scattered cilia or processes ; axils patent. 
Sori scattered, thickened into convex tubercles, containing few tetraspores. 
East coast, Colenso ; Banks’s Peninsula, Lyall. 
7. N. ? suborbiculare, Harv. in FI. N. Z. ii. 242. Prond rose-red, 
delicately membranous, subsessile or with a setaceous stipes, suddenly ex- 
panding into an entire suborbicular lamina 1 in. broad, entire crenate or 
lobed ; substance of one layer of angular cells. Sori and conceptacles scat- 
tered over the whole frond. 
Parasitic, Hawke’s Bay, Colenso ; Cook’s Straits, Lyall. — A curious plant, of doubtful 
affinity, perhaps to be referred to Rhodymenia ; if a new genus, Harvey proposes that it 
should be called Ahroteia. 
ft Frond with evident nerves. 
8. N. multinerve, Hook. f. and Harv. ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 241. Frond 
rose-red, shortly stipitate, 2-4 in. long, rounded or cuneate at the base, 
simple or cut into numerous ribbon-like segments, which are traversed by 
numerous parallel distinct nerves. — PL Antarct. 473 ; Harv. Ner. Austr. 119; 
J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 666. 
Massacre and Chalky bays and Stewart’s Island, Lyall. (Tasmania, Fuegia.) 
9. N. crispatum, Hook. f. and Harv. in FI. Antarct. 185. t. 71. f. 1. 
Prond rose-red, 3-4 in. long, stipitate, oblong or broadly expanded from a 
cuneate decompound dichotomous and subpinnately laciniate base, with 
branched basal nerves ; segments cuneate, tips and axils obtuse ; margins 
crenulate and crisped. Sori minute, dot-like, scattered over the whole frond. 
— Harv. Ner. Austr. 120 ; J. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 664. 
C ampb ell’s Island, J. D. H. 
- 10. N. D , TJrvillaei, J. Agardh; — FI. Ff. Z. ii. 240. Prond 6-10 in. 
long, narrowed into a stout cylindric dichotomous stipes, 1-3 in. long, pal- 
mately dichotomous, the stipes branching into the segments, which are linear 
subcuneate, the lower crisped, the upper slightly undulate ; terminal lobes 
linear-oblong, very obtuse ; divisions of the costa produced nearly to the 
tops of the latinise. Sori dot-like, thickly scattered over the upper lobes. — 
