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870 61.Sph£eroc. 2.THALASSIOPHYT.E. Pl.cell.aph.
short scattered cilise ; tubercles hemispherical, immersed in
the thallus near the edge.
Fticu-; bifidus, Hiids. Ft. Angl. 581 ; Turn. Hist. 154 ; Engl. Bot. 773.
Sphjerococcus bifidus, Agardh Disp. 16.
Dflcsseria bifida, I. amour. Thai.
Rocks and plants in the sea; perennial; Sept. to Jan.
(3. ciliatus. Thallus linear, fringed along the edge; fringe
Ininute, toothlike; tip lanceolate, pointed.
y. decipiens. Thallus irregularly divided ; edge here and
there fringed; tip oval and pointed.
J. suhpalmalus. Thallus linear, nearly palmate, rounded
at the tip.
e. siniiosus. Thallus somewhat dilated, slightly sinuated
towards the tip.
C siipitatus. Thallus nearly cylindrical; tips either dilated
and blunt, or narrow and pointed, proliferous at the
edge.
g. Thallus fiat, forked or palmate, fringed; tubercles on
the edge.
14. Splicerococcus lacinialus. Jagged rouudfruit.
Thallus flat, leatherlike, lobed ; segments dilated up-*
wards; tip palmate, blunt; edge crenated, proliferous;
sporidia in the' thickened edge, or marginal fringe.
Fucus laciniatiis, Huds. Fl. Angl. 579; Turn. Hist. 69; Engl. Bot. 1068.
Fucus rainialHs, Fl. Dan. 769.
Fucus cilialus, Gmel. 176,
Fucus crispus, Esper. 18.
Fucus crispatus, Stackh. Ner. Brit. 15.
Fucus laceratus y, Linn. Tr. 3, 156.
On rocks and stones in the sea ;
February to May.
Thallus aggregated, smaller at bottom.
|3. ovalfalius. Thallus proliferous on the edge ; marginal
processes elliptical roundish, simple, on short petioles.
edge.
h. Thallus fiat, pinnately lobed, fringed j tubercles on the
15. SphcBrococcus ciliatus.
Fringed roundfruil.
Thallus flat, membranaceous, cartilaginous, lanceolate,
pinnately divided ; surface and edge fringed ; fringe mostly
simple, awlshape, spread ; tubercles on the edge.