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7. Fronds monosiphonous 2. Ectocarpaceae (p. 400)
7. Fronds more complex 8
8. Growth trichothallic 9
8. Growth subterminal, not distinctly trichothallic 10
9. Sori distinct, more or less transversely arranged, superficial or projecting
9. Striariaceae (p. 528)
9. Without distinct sori, sporangia and gametangia neither superficial nor project-
ing 11. JEgiraceae (p. 543)
10. Fronds dichotomously much branched 13. Chnoosporaceae (p. 552)
10. Fronds alternately branched on all sides
family 2. ECTOCABPACEAE harvey
12. Heterochordariaceae (p. 549)
Thallus of monosiphonous filaments, occasionally partially poly-
siphonous, branched in various ways, arising from creeping, superficial
or at times penetrating filaments, occasionally arising from a small
superficial disk, usually entirely free from one another, occasionally
slightly intertwined or loosely united by a thin jelly ;
growth proceed-
ing from a subapical cell, often situated at the base of a hair (tricho-
thallic) ; cells uninucleate with one or more parietal chromatophores
of fixed and definite form ; zoosporangia unilocular, terminal, either a
branchlet transformed wholly or in part, or intercalary; gametangia
plurilocular, of various shapes, arising from a branchlet transformed
wholly or in part, or intercalary, in some cases differentiated as to
size and number of divisions (mega- and meio-gametangia) ; game-
tophyte and sporophyte identical in size and structure.
Ectocarpaceae Harvey, Ner. Bor.-Amer., part 1, 1852, p. 132 (in
part) ; Kjellman, in Engler and Prantl, Die natiirl. Pflanzenfam. Teil
1, Abt, 2 (Lief. 60), 1891, p. 182 (in part) ; Oltmanns, Morph. und
Biol, der Algen, vol. 2, 1922, p. 6 (in part). Ectocarpeae Agardh,
Syst. Alg., 1824, p. XXX (in part) ; Oltmanns, Morph. und Biol, der
Algen, vol. 1, 1904, p. 353 (in part). Kuetzing, Phyc. Gen., 1843,
p. 287 (in part) ; Oltmanns, Morph. und Biol, der Algen, vol. 1, 1904,
p. 353 (in part).
Key to the Genera
1. Zoosporangia and gametangia transformed branchlets or tips of branches or
branchlets, strictly terminal 2
1. Zoosporangia and gametangia catenate, intercalary 3. Pylaiella (p. 401)
2. Vegetative filaments superficial or penetrating the host merely by
rhizoids 4. Ectocarpus (p. 407)
2. Vegetative filaments deeply penetrating the host, projecting little, if
at all, beyond its surface 5. Streblonema (p. 440)