The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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274 ALGiE INARTICULATE. [Sporochnus.
Sea-shore, frequent. y..—The young plants are flaccid, and furnished
with tufts of hairs arranged in a distichous manner, which, falling off,
are succeeded by spines : old plants are harsh and rigid.
10. Dichloria. Grev. Dichloria.
Frond cylindrical, filiform, cartilaginous, pinnated with opposite
branches, becoming flaccid and of a verdigris-green
colour on exposure to the air. Fructification unknown. Grev.
Alg. Brit. p. 39. t. 6.—Name ; hi;, twice and %>.w£/c, green, " in
allusion to its singular change of colour."
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1. D. viridis, Grev. (green Dichloria). Grev. Alg. Brit.
p. 39. t. 6. Sporochnus viridis, Ag. Sp. Alg. v. 1. p. 154.
Chordaria viridis, Ag.Syn.Alg. Scand.p. 14.— Gigartina viridis
Lyngb—Desmarestia viridis, Lamour Fucus viridis, Fl. Dan.
t. 886. Turn. Syn. Fuc. p. 397, Hist. Fuc. t. 97. E. Bot.
t. 1669.
Sea-coast, on rocks and on the larger Algae, in various parts of England
and Ireland, and in Scotland, both on the east and on the west coast
(Capt. Carmichael). ©. Summer.—This is one of the most beautiful
and slenderest of the inarticulated Algae. One or two feet or more
long, much divided in a pinnated manner, with dense capillary and mostly
long branches, of an olive-green colour, inclining to orange in age, verdi-
gris-green when exposed (while recent) to the air.
11. Sporochnus. Ag. Sporochnus.
Frond filiform, cylindrical or compressed, cartiJagineo-membranaceous.
Fructification; club-shaped, monW'iform filaments,
radiating in scattered warts, or concentrical in distinct (mostly
elavate, stalked) receptacles, often terminated by a deciduous
tuft of filaments. Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 40. t. 6.—Name,