The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

304 ALGiE INARTICULATE. [Gelidium.
Dr. Greville. Belfast, Dr. Drummond. Miltown Malbay, Mr. Harvey.
If. . Winter,— Mr. Harvey's specimens of Phyllopkora rubens are some-
what peculiar, more than 8 inches in length, very narrow, much curled,
several times dichotomously divided, and in some the proliferous character
is nearly obliterated by the primitive frond being much elongated
and branched ; no fructification, except nemathecia be considered such,
has been found upon them.
37. Sphcerococcus. Stackh. Sphsero coccus.
Frond cartilaginous, compressed, two-edged, linear, distichously
branched. Fructification ; mucronate capsules, containing
a mass of ovate, shortly pedicellate, red seeds. Grev. Alg. Brit,
p. 138. t. 15.—Name ;