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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 191<br />

73. Fronds long, cylindrical, densely clothed with lake-red hairs Dasya.<br />

Fronds purple or dark red, occasionally blackish, superficial cells either throughout or at<br />

least in the young branches arranged in transverse bands ..... 74<br />

Fronds dark red, much branched, rather robust, superficial cells small, irregularly<br />

placed ......................................................................... Rhodomela.<br />

74. Tetraspores borne in the younger branches .......... Polysiphonia.<br />

Tetraspores borne in swollen, pod-like branches (stichidia).<br />

....................................................................................... Bostrychia.<br />

75. Fronds cartilaginous, dense, spores immersed in the substance of frond 76<br />

Fronds delicate or somewhat coriaceous ........................................ 79<br />

Fronds gelatinous, livid purple, composed of a single layer of cells, spores in marginal<br />

bands or spots ............................................................... Porphyra.<br />

76. Fronds formed internally of numerous anastomosnig [sic] filaments which divide<br />

corymbosely at the surface ........................................................ 77<br />

Fronds formed of roundish angular cells throughout .................... 78<br />

77. Fronds plane or slightly channelled ............................ Chondrus.<br />

Fronds beset with small papillæ, in which the spores are borne.<br />

.........................................................................................Gigartina.<br />

78. Fronds with a prominent stipe, which passes into a proliferous lamina, cystocarps<br />

external, globose ....................................................... Phyllophora.<br />

Fronds linear, regularly dichotomous, cystocarps immersed.<br />

................................................................................Gymnogongrus.<br />

79. Midrib present ........................................................................... 80<br />

Midrib wanting ................................................................................ 82<br />

80. Fronds rosy red, leaf-like ............................................................81<br />

Fronds dark brownish purple, narrow, dentate, midrib scarcely distinct Odonthalia.<br />

81. Tetraspores in spots on the fronds, lateral veins usually present.<br />

........................................................................................ Delesseria.<br />

Lateral veins wanting, tetraspores in thickened portions of the fronds Grinnellia.<br />

82. Fronds narrow, much divided ................................................... 84<br />

Fronds palmately or dichotomously divided ................................... 83<br />

83. Fronds deep red, broadly palmate, margins proliferous, tetraspores cruciate in<br />

patches ..................................................................... Rhodymenia.<br />

Fronds dark red, margins ciliate, tetraspores zonate Rhodophyllis. Fronds dark purple,<br />

deeply divided, tetraspores scattered, cruciate.<br />

........................................................................................Gracilaria.<br />

84. Branches alternately secund in threes or fours, the lowest undivided and spine-like,<br />

the rest pinnate ......................................................... Plocamium.<br />

Fronds subflabellate, upper divisions divaricately toothed Euthora.

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