iMtsceUnmra. 
ALGjE OF TASMANIA. By W. H. Harvey, M.D., &c. 
(From the London Journal of Botany, August , 1844.) 
[Continued from p. 377.] 
5. Dasya villosa , Harv.; caule crasso, longissimo, pinnatim de- 
composito-ramosissimo, vest ito, cartilagineo; ramis ramulis- 
que alternis, crebis, erecto-patentibus, totis filis quadri fariis, 
articulatis, elongatis, floccosis, tenuissimis vestitis; filis dicho¬ 
tomy axillis acutis, articulis diametro, quadruplo longioribus; 
stichidiis pedicellatis oblongis, acutis v. mucronatis; kerami- 
diis ovatis, acuminatis, pedicellatis, e ramis enatis. 
George Town, V. D* L., R . Gunn, Esq., n. 1262 and 1263.— 
Stem 12-14 inches long, excessively branched and bushy, the 
lower branches often as long as the stem, many times divided in 
an alternate, but not distichous manner. Branches crowded ; 
they, and all parts of the frond except the older portions of the 
stem densely clothed with exceedingly slender quadrifariously in¬ 
serted, scattered, articulated filaments or ramelli. These are 
neither whorled nor pencilled at their insertion, but, though 
crowded, are scattered irregularly over the surface, erecto-patent, 
2-3 lines long, repeatedly, but rather distantly dichotomous, with 
joints about four times as long as broad. Colour a dark vinous 
red, becoming brownish, and staining the paper in drying. 
Keramidia springing directly from the stem, on thickish inarticu¬ 
late stalks, ovate-acuminate, large. Stichidia borne on the ra¬ 
melli, pedicellate, oblong, acute or lanceolate, but not remarkably 
attenuate.—This species has greatly the habit of D. elegans, Ag., 
but is a much coarser growing plant, and wants the beautiful rosy 
colour of that species. 
6. Dasya bolbochate, Harv.; caule crassiusculo, ramosissimo; 
ramis alternis, patentibus, simplicibus, rumulisc|iie filis articu¬ 
latis elongatis floccosis tenuissimis vestitis; filis e bulbo lan- 
ceolato basi attenuato penicillatis, simplicibus, setiformibusj 
fragilibus, articulis diametro 5-6-plo longioribus.? 
