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Chylocladia.] ALGiE INARTICULATE. 297
On rocks and on the larger Algce on the coast of Dorset (Goodenough
•and Woodward). Isle of Wight, Rev. G. R. Leathes. Devon {Mrs.
Griffiths), and Cornwall (E. #o/.). 0. Summer.— 6—8 inches high.
Readily distinguished by its very slender uniform ultimate ramuli or
pinnules.— I possess most beautiful specimens from Mrs. Griffiths,
gathered at Elberrey Cove, in fructification.
33. Chylocladia. Grev. MSS. Chylocladia.
Frond cylindrical, filiform (often constricted as if jointed),
between gelatinous and cartilaginous, of a pinky-red colour.
Fructification of two kinds :—1. spha?rical, ovate or conical cap-
sules,\\\t\\ wedge-shaped or angular seeds :—2. imbedded, ter-
nate granides. Grev. Alg. Brit, (under Gastridium) p. 114.
t. 14.—Name K-Sho, juice, and/CA«6o;, a branch, from the succulent
nature of the ramuli.—The name Gastridium having been previously
given to a Genus of Grasses, it has been necessary to
change it.
* Frond without constrictions.
1. C. clavellosa, (clavellated Chylocladia) ; frond subgelatinous
filiform cylindrical much and irregularly branched, brandies and
ramuli mostly alternate and distichous, ultimate ones more or
Lyngb.— Grev. Alg. Bi it. p. 1 15.— Chondria clavel., Ag. Sp. Alg.
less lanceolate attenuated at the base.— Gastridium ckivellosum
v. 1. p. 353.—Gigartina clavel., Lamour.—Fucus clavellosus.
Turn, in Linn. Trans, v. 6. p. 123. t. 9. Hist. Fuc. t. 30. E.
Bot. t. 1283. 3. sedifoiia ; ramuli between oblong and ovate
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crowded undivided. Turn. 1. c.— Gastridium purpuras oens y
Lyngb. Hydroph. Dan. t. 17.
On various parts of the coast of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 0.
Summer.— Three inches to almost a foot in length. .Mr. Harvey finds
an appearance of joints in the ultimate ramuli, very evident when fresh.
** Famuli elliptical, rarely somewhat elongated and constricted.
2. C. ovdiis, (oval-leaved Chylocladia) ; frond subgelatinous
nearly cylindrical filiform dichotomous naked below above bearing
elliptical simple ramuli tapering at their base, capsules
spherical with a pellucid border.— Gastridium ovale, Grev. Alt.
lint. p. IK), t. 14. Chondria ovalis, Ag. Sp. Alg. v. 1.
pt .-) is.— Gigartina vermicularis etovata, Lamour.— Fucus oralis,
Huds^—E.Bot. fc 711. Turn. Syn. Fuc. p. 30, fits* Fuc.
t. s|. F.sedoides, Good.