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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