The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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Phyllophora.] AI.GJE INARTICULATE. 303
Ag. Sp. Alg. v. 1 . p. 240. Fucus membranif., Good, et Woodw.
Turn. Syn. Fuc. p. 25, Hist. Fuc. t. 74, (excl. var. £. roseus.)
E. Bot. t \965.—F.Jinibriatus, Huds.
Submarine rocks, on almost all our coasts. If.. Winter.— Of this
again Mr. Turner enumerates several varieties:— «• lacer; leaves dichotomous,
segments linear, apices obtuse. Turn.— y. steUahuj apices of
the leaves cleft into very numerous narrow segments. Turn.— I. Jimbriatus
; leaves fringed at the margin. Turn.— s. latifolius ; leaves membranaceous
semi-orbicular, multifid in a palmate manner, segments short-
ish rounded at the apices. Turn.— £. roseus ,- stipes simple, expanded at
its apex into a single, oblong, simple leaf. Turn.— n. anguslissimut ; leaves
very narrow, nearly linear, irregularly divided, proliferous from the margin.
Turn.
4. C. Brodceii, Grev. (Mr. Brodies Chondrus) ; stipes cylindrical
branched, the branches expanding- into oblong- merabranaceo-cartilag-inous
simple or forked flat seg-ments, capsules
sphaerical sessile upon the apices of the segments.— Grev. Air/.
Brit. p. 133. Splicerococcus Brodicei, Ag. Sp. Alg. p. 239.
Delesseria Brodicei, Lamour.—Fucus Brodicei, Turn. Hist.
Fuc. t. 72. E. Bot. t. I960.—/3. simplex; stipes short expanding
into an oblong- mostly simple or once forked rosecoloured
frond. Grev.—F. mcmbranifolius, var. £. roseus, Turn.
East coast of Scotland, on submarine rocks, frequent.— £. Coast of
Devon, Mrs. Griffiths.— On the var. /S. are frequently dark red vpots in
the disk of the frond, composed of a dense mass of moniliform filaments,
which is deciduous, and leaves a scar behind.
36. Phyllophora. Grev. Phyllophora.
Frond cartilaginous or membranaceous, of a purple rose-red
colour, plane, proliferous from the disk, furnished with a more
or less imperfect or obscure midrib. Fructification;— 1. Cap-
sules containing a mass of minute roundish free seeds;— 2.
Sort of simple granules, in little foliaceous processes. (In
two species, the nemathecia of Agardli, or a thickened mass of
jointed filarm nts, have been observed, but no granules*) Grey*
Alg. Brit. j). 135. t. 15.— Name