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890 ALGiE GLOIOCLADEiE. [Myrionema.
of gelatine ; filaments, in all respects, similar to those of the other species,
except in being mostly proliferous." Carm. MSS.
2. Marine. (Chsetophorse spurise.)
6. C. Berkeleyi, Grev. (Mr. Berkeley s Chcetophora); " frond
depressed brown subhemisphaerical, main branches somewhat
anastomosing, ultimate ones fasciculate." Berk. Alg. t. 1.
Rocks at Torquay, Rev. 31. J. Berkeley.
7. C. pellita, Lyngb. (purple crustaceous Chcetophora); frond
purple-brown crustaceous gelatinoso-coriaceous indefinitely
spreading.—Lyngb. Hydroph. Dan. t. 66. Fl. Dan.t. 1728./. 1.
Berk. Alg. t.l.f. 3.
Rocks and stones, in the sea. Appin, Captain Carmichael. Oban,
Rev. M. J.Berkeley. Miltown Malbay, W. H. Harvey.—" Sporidia between
obovate and clavate, lodged at the base of the filaments. On being
disengaged, they separate, as in some of the Fuel, into 3—4 roundish
portions." Carm. MSS. This fructification appears to be of rare occurrence.
It was not till after an examination of more than 100 specimens,
that Captain Carmichael was fortunate enough to discover it, in the
month of February.
89. CoRYNEPHQRA. Ag. Corynephora.
Frond globose or lobed, carnoso-coriaceous, hollow (not filled
with gelatine), composed of articulated dichotomous filaments,
fasciculated at the apices, and issuing from a central point.
Fructification ; oval capsules or globides of seeds, seated in the
terminal fasciculi.—Name; xogywj, zclub, and po*sa, to bear; the
apices of the filaments are agglutinated into the tough frond or
periphery aud are clavate.— Closely related to Mesogloia,
(especially M.vermicuhris), but differing in the absence of a filiform
axis.
]. C. marina, Ag. (marine Corynephora,). Ag. Syst. Alg.
p, 24.— Tremella difformis, Linn.— Chatophora marina, Lyngb.
Hydroph. Dan. t. 66. Grev. Crypt. Fl. t. 2b.—Rivularia tuberiformis,
E. Bot. t. 1956.
In the sea, on rocks, corallines and Algce, abundantly.—" In young
plants, the central cavity is traversed by a system of very wide inflated
jointed hyaline tubes, branching dichotomously, while they radiate in all
directions to the surface, where each branch terminates in a tuft of short,
club shaped, moniliform, coloured ramuli ; among these last, which by
their lateral cohesion form the whole substance of the plant, the sporidia
are found nestling. They are obovate, smooth and mostly solitary."
Carm. MSS —Common as this plant is on our shores, we have no correct
figure or description of it in any British work. The above is from
the manuscripts of the late Captain Carmichael, and it is the best and
most perspicuous that I know.
90. Myrionema. Grev. Myrionema.
Mass gelatinous, effused, composed of very short, clavate,