Griffiths discovered in Torbay a plant possesing apparently the
leading or essential characters of the Norfolk one, but growing
in the open sea and always as a parasite on Bhodomenia palmata.
Meanwhile Agardh described a new Ectocarpus brachiatus, a native
of the Baltic, and conferred the name E. crueiatus the E. Bot.
species. The name brachiatus no doubt belongs to the Norfolk
plant, and if the Torbay individuals now figured and described,
and of which excellent specimens have been published in Mrs.
Wyatt’s “ Alga Danmoniensis ” are essentially different, a new
name should be conferred on them; and Agardh’s E. brachiatus,
if it be not the same with E. sptucrophorus, Carm., might be
called E. Agardhianus.
Fie 1 E o to ca r pu s b r a c h ia t u s :— natural size. 2. A portion of the frond;
—magnified. 3. Apex of a branch. 4. Fragment, to show the imbedded
f ru it:— more liiglilg mag
