The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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Irickea.] ALGA: INARTICULATE. 307
Turn, in Linn. Trans, v 6. p. 135. t. 10. Syn. Fuc. p. 362,
Hist. Fuc. t. 102. E. Bot. t. 1165.
Only, I believe, seen among rejectamenta upon our shores and very
rare. Yarmouth, Mr. IVigg. Brighton, Mr. Sorrer. Folkstone, Miss
Everett. Sidmouth, Mrs. Griffiths. Bantry, Ireland, Miss Hutehins.
©. Summer.—A highly beautiful and curious plant, with the habit and
much of the structure of Mesogluia, with which Miss Hutehins thought
it ought to be arranged.
41. Ptilota. Ag. Ptilota.
Frond compressed or flat, pectinato-pinnate, of a red colour,
between membranaceous and cartilaginous. Fructification
minute, aggregated : the capsules surrounded by an involucre.
Grev. Alg. Brit.j)- 154. t. 16.—Name; ttiXuto;, pinnated ; from
the extremely beautifully pinnated appearance of the richly
coloured fronds.
1. P. phtmdsa, Ag. (feathered Ptilota) ; frond compressed
cartilaginous much and irregularly branched, the branches repeatedly
pectinato-pinnated, ramuli opposite bearing the fructification
at their apices. Ag. Sp. Alg. v. 1. p. 385. Grev. Alg.
Brit. p. 155. t. 16. Plocamium plumosum, Lamour.—Fucus\
plumosus, Linn.— Turn. Syn. Fuc. p. 296, Hist. Fuc. t. 60.
E. Bot. t. 1308.—1@. capillaris ; frond very narrow, the segments
nearly cylindrical jointed. Turn. I. c.f.g—h.
Rocky sea-shcres, frequent. p>. Not unfrequent on the perpendicular
faces of rocks. If. . Summer and Autumn.— A jointed appearance is
visible in the young and tender parts of this plant, especially in an early
state.
Tribe X. Gastrocarpe^e.
Plants all marine, with a scutate root, qfapinkj red. of pur-
plish-red odour, most of them not changing much on exposure to
the atmosphere, of a carnose, geloMnoso-cartilaginous or gelatinosch
membranaceous substance; t/