Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . iously only in a youngstate, and probably the fully developed frond would be of differ-ent shape and considerably larger. Its characters are, however,so strongly marked, that its specific entity cannot be the other species of Claudea {C. elegans and C. muUiJida)it is at once known, besides other characters, by the decussatepattern of its reticulation. In the pattern there is more resem-blance to Vanvoorstia spectabilis, but the evolution is distinctlythat of a Claude
Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . iously only in a youngstate, and probably the fully developed frond would be of differ-ent shape and considerably larger. Its characters are, however,so strongly marked, that its specific entity cannot be the other species of Claudea {C. elegans and C. muUiJida)it is at once known, besides other characters, by the decussatepattern of its reticulation. In the pattern there is more resem-blance to Vanvoorstia spectabilis, but the evolution is distinctlythat of a Claudea, not of Vanvoorstia. The specific name is bestowed in honour of my valued friendDr. George Bennett, of Sydney, well known as an accomplishednaturalist, and from whom I experienced much kindness duringmy visit to New South Wales. I trust the publication of thisfigure may lead to further information respecting this very re-markable and, at present, unique Alga. Fig. 1. Claudea Bennettiana,—the natural size. 3. A portion of the net-work,—magnified. 3. A small fragment,—more highly magnified. IlaU Ser. MELANOSPERMEiE. Fam. Sporochioidece. Plate LXII. ENCYOTHALIA CLIFTONI, Haw. Gen. Chah. Frond filiform^ solid, alternately branched; branches besetwith penicillate, setaceous ramelli. Receptacle one or two in eachbranch, cylindrical, investing the middle portion of the branch, andconsisting of simple, vertical, densely crowded paranemata. Sporesattached to the paranemata, oblong, transversely striate.—Encyo-THALIA {Harv.), from e<yKvo<i, pregnant, and 6a\o<i, a hranch; thefertile branches are swollen. Frons filiformis, solida, alterne ramom; ramis ramellis setaceis penicillato-comosis per totam longitudmem obsessis. Receptaculum in quoque ramonnicum, cylindraceum, niediam partem rami circumvestiens, ex paranematibussimplicibus verticalibus dense stipatis constitutuvi. Sporce ad paranematalatej-ales, oblonyce, transversim striata. Encyothalia Cli/toni, Harv. H
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