Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . es decision. The natural affinities of BasypUcea appear tome to be rather with Bhabdonia than with Chrysymenia, nextwhich it is doubtfully placed by Agardh. The hinate arrange-ment of the cystocarps is peculiar, but the spore-threads re-semble those of Bhabdonia, Arescliovgia, and Erythroclonium ;and while the liabit of BasypJdoea is near that of Bhabdonia, itagrees in structure better with Erythroclonium. Between thesegenera it may be naturally placed. But whether I am right inreta
Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . es decision. The natural affinities of BasypUcea appear tome to be rather with Bhabdonia than with Chrysymenia, nextwhich it is doubtfully placed by Agardh. The hinate arrange-ment of the cystocarps is peculiar, but the spore-threads re-semble those of Bhabdonia, Arescliovgia, and Erythroclonium ;and while the liabit of BasypJdoea is near that of Bhabdonia, itagrees in structure better with Erythroclonium. Between thesegenera it may be naturally placed. But whether I am right inretaining the small group to which Bhabdonia is referable{BwnontiecR of Agardh) among the Bhodymeniacece, is a questionwhich admits of reconsideration. Fig. 1. Dasyphlcea Tasmanica,—the natural me. 2. A small branchlet, withfertile ramvdi. 3. Cross section of the frond. 4. One of the superficialhairs. 5. Cross section through a fertile ramulus, showing the binate cys-tocarps. 6. One of the excurrent filaments. 7. ^owlq spore-threads cystocarps :—the latter figures more or less magnified. Plate VSnccntSrooks^Irnp Ser. Melanosperme^e. Fam. Fucace^p. Plate CXVI. CYSTOPHORA CEPHALORNITHOS,/.^^. Gen. Char. Root scutate. Frond pinnately decompound, dendroid, witha distinct stem, branches, and ramuliform leaves. Vesicles stipitate,simple, rarely absent. Receptacles pod-like, torulose or moniliform,developed in the ramuli. Scaphidia hermaphrodite. 8pores obovoid.—Cystophora (/. Ag^, from Kvart^, a bladder, and (f)ope(o, to bear. Radix scutata. Irons pinnathn deconiposita, dendroidea, caule proprio, ramisfoliisqiie ramidiformibus donata. Vesicida dipitatce, simpUces, raro siHqtiaformia, torulosa v. nodidosa, apice ramulorum hermaphrodita. Cystophora cephalornithos ; stem terete, simple, warted; branches issuingfrom all sides, pinnately divided; ramuli filiform, the uppermostchanged at their summits into terete receptacles; vesicles f
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