The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

Policies.] ALGJE INARTICULATE. 283
— This beautiful and delicate plant is from 6 inches to a foot in height,
of an olive-green colour ; its tender frond often obliquely jagged and
torn at the margin, like an old leaf of Banana. I am indebted to Mrs.
Griffiths for numerous specimens with the fructifications above noticed,
and for a third state, with incipient capsules, apparently in small clusters,
and enclosed in isolated, irregular, pale blotches, surrounded by a
dark wavy line. Dr. Greville correctly observes that this species is proli-
ferous, the young plants arising from very near the midrib ; and, also,
that when recent, it has an extremely powerful and disagreeable smell.
Tribe VII. Furcellarie^e.
Marine plants, of a dull dark-purplish or brownish-red colour,
changing to black on exposure to the air. Substance cartilaginous.
Structure cellular, with a dense coloured stratum of horizontalfilaments
forming the circumference. Hoot creeping. Frond cylindrical,
filiform, dichotomous. Fructification terminal composed
of pod-like indehiscent receptacles, within which is imbedded, near
the circumference, a horizontal circidar stratum of dark-brown ob-
long pear-shaped seeds. Grev.
22. Furcellaria. Lamour. Furcellaria.
Frond cartilaginous, cylindrical, filiform, dichotomous. Fructification
; terminal, elongated, pod-like receptacles, containing a
stratum of dark, oblong pear-shaped seeds in the circumference.
Grev. Alg. Brit. p. ;
(37."/. 11.—Name furcula orfurcilia, a little
fork; from the- forked or dichotomous ramifications.
1. F. fastigidta, Lamour. (fastigiated Furcellaria). Ag. Sp.
Alg. v. 1. p. 103. Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 67. t. 1 1.—F. lumbricalis,
Lamour.— Lijn.— F.fastigiaius, Huds.—F. lumbricalis, Gmel.
—Turn. Syn. Fuc. p. 317, Hist. Fuc. t. 6. E. Bot.t. 894.
Rock} Bea-shores, frequent. If..? Fr. in the winter months. Grev.—