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THE MARINE ALGÆ OF NEW ENGLAND.<br />

Fronds compressed, ancipital, branches pectinate-pinnate, covered everywhere, except at<br />

the tips, by polygonal, arealated cells.<br />

..............................................................................................Ptilota.<br />

61. Fronds dichotomous, tips usually incurved ............... Ceramium.<br />

Fronds pinnate, main branches corticated throughout with cells arranged in transverse<br />

bands, secondary branches corticated only at the nodes Spyridia.<br />

62. Fronds nearly black, substance dense ...................................... 63<br />

Fronds rose-colored or purple, gelatinous or rather succulent, sometimes capillary<br />

64<br />

63. Fronds dichotomous, cylindrical, cartilaginous, spores borne in external flesh-colored<br />

warts ............................................................................... Polyides.<br />

Fronds filiform, rigid, wiry, irregularly branching, forming dense, intricate bunches<br />

Ahnfeldtia.<br />

Fronds small, compressed, pinnate, forming small turfs, spores borne on an axile<br />

placenta in the enlarged terminal branches ............... Gelidium.<br />

64. Cystocarps immersed in the fronds .......................................... 65<br />

Cystocarps external, ovate or urceolate .......................................... 70<br />

65. Fronds gelatinous, composed internally of a dense mass of slender longitudinal<br />

filaments, which give off short, corymbose, lateral branches, which form the cortex<br />

66<br />

Fronds succulent, consisting of an internal layer of slender longitudinal filaments and a<br />

cortex composed of roundish polygonal cells, which become smaller towards the<br />

surface ........................................................................................ 69<br />

66. Spores arranged in regular radiating lines .............................. 67<br />

Spores in an irregular mass ............................................................ 68<br />

67. Cystocarps naked, cortical filaments free, often ending in hairs.<br />

.........................................................................................Nemalion.<br />

Cystocarps surrounded by a delicate membranous sack, cortical filaments ending in<br />

large hyaline cells, which are adherent to one another . Scinaia.<br />

68. Fronds dichotomous, subcompressed, central filaments fine and numerous<br />

Nemastoma.<br />

Fronds filiform, pinnate, central filaments few, rather large.<br />

..................................................................................Gloiosiphonia.<br />

69. Spores arranged in groups around a central placenta Rhabdonia.<br />

Spores grouped in several irregular masses in the interior of the<br />

fronds ........................................................................... Cystoclonium.<br />

70. Fronds traversed by a distinct central filament or siphon ...... 72<br />

Fronds without a distinct central filament .................................... 71<br />

71. Fronds succulent, brownish purple, cylindrical, beset with subulate branchlets,<br />

apices generally hooked, tetraspores zonate Hypnea. Fronds red, somewhat rigid,<br />

filiform, tetraspores cruciate.<br />

Cordylecladia.<br />

72. Branches much contracted at base ........................ Chondriopsis.<br />

Branches not contracted at base ..................................................... 73

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