
 
        
         
		13.  n o d o s u s ;   frond  compressed,  dicliotomo-pinnate;  branches  strap-shaped,  
 attenuated  at the  base,  remotely  toothed  and  here  and  there  swelling into  
 oblong  air-vessels, wider  than the frond;  receptacles  lateral,  ovate,  stalked.  
 (T ab .  C L V I I I .) 
 14.  Mackaii;  cylindrical  or  compressed,  dichotomous;  air-vessels  elliptical,  
 solitary;  receptacles  lateral,  stalked,  pendulous,  near the  base  of  the  dichotomous  
 branches.  (Tab.  LII.) 
 15.  canaliculatus;  frond  narrow,  channelled,  without  midrib  or  air-vessels,  
 dichotomous,  (T ab .  CCXXIX.) 
 VI.  HIMANTHALIA. 
 16.  lo r e a ;   frond  top-shaped;  receptacles  repeatedly forked.  (Tab. LXXVIII.) 
 Order  2.  SPOEOCHNACEiE. 
 VII.  DESMABESTIA. 
 1 7 .  l i g u l a t a ;   flat,  obscurely  midribbed,  repeatedly  pinnate;  piimse  and  pin-  
 nulm  opposite,  lanceolate.  (T ab .  CXY.) 
 18.  a c u l e a t a ;   branches  compressed,  slender,  bi-tri-pinnate;  pinnee  and  pin-  
 nulm  alternate, margined with  subulate  spines.  (T a b .  XLIX.) 
 19.  viridis;  frond  filiform,  repeatedly  pinnate;  pinnm  and  pinnulm  capillary,  
 exactly  opposite,  patent.  (T ab .  CCCXII.) 
 VIII.  ABTHEOCLADIA. 
 2 0 .  v illo s a .  (Tab.  LX IV .) 
 IX.  SPOBOCHNUS. 
 2 1 .  p e d u n c u l a tu s ;  stem undivided;  branches  lateral,  simple;  receptacles  elliptical. 
   (Tab.  LVI.) 
 X.  CABPOMITBA. 
 2 2 .  Cabrerse;  irregularly  dichotomous,  linear,  narrow,  flat,  midribbed;  
 branches here  and  there  constricted.  (T ab.  XIV.) 
 O rd e rs .  LAMINAJIIACE^. 
 XI.  ALABIA. 
 23.  e sc u le n ta ;  frond  lanceolate;  midrib  narrow,  cylindrical;  leaflets  linear-  
 oblong or wedge-form.  (T a b .  LXXIX.) 
 XII.  LAMINABIA. 
 24.  d ig ita ta ;  stipe  cylindrical  or  compressed,  elongate;  lamina  deeply  cleft  
 into many linear  segments.  (T ab .  CCXXIII.) 
 24.*  Var.  stmophylla. T a b .  CGCXXXVIII. 
 25.  b u lb o s a ;  stipes  flat,  with  a  wavy  margin,  twisted  at  the  base,  rising  
 from  a  hollow,  warted  tuber;  frond  deeply  cleft  into  linear  segments.  
 (T ab .  CCXLI.) 
 26.  lo n g ic ru r is ;  stipes  very  long,  slender  at  the  base,  hollow  and  inflated  
 in  the  middle,  tapering  to  the  apex;  lamina  undivided,  membranaceous,  
 oblong.  (T ab .  CCCXXXIX.) 
 27.  s a c c h a r in a ;  stem  filiform,  solid,  expanding  into  a  cartilagineo-coriaceous,  
 lanceolate  frond.  (T ab .  CCLXXXIX.) 
 28.  P h y llitis ;  stipe  short,  subcompressed,  gradually  expanding  into  a linear-  
 lanceolate,  delicately membranous,  undivided  frond.  (T ab .  CXCII.) 
 29.  F a s c ia ;  stipe  very  short,  setaceous,  ending  in  a  membranaceous,  wedge-  
 .  shaped  or lanceolate frond.  (T ab .  XLV.) 
 XIII.  CHOBDA. 
 30.  S lum ;  frond filiform, veiy long,  not  constricted  at  the joints.  (Tab. CVII.) 
 31.  lom e n ta ria ;  frond  membranous,  constricted  at  distant  intervals,  the  interstices  
 inflated.  (T ab .  CCLXXXV.) 
 Order  4.  DICTTOTACEJ;. 
 XIV.  CDTLEBIA. 
 32.  m u ltifid a ;  polymorphous,  flabelliform,  irregularly  cleft;  laciniee  acute,  attenuate. 
   (T ab.  LXXV.) 
 XV.  H A L ISB E IS . 
 33.  polypodioides;  frond  dichotomous, entire;  
 posed  along the midrib.  (T ab . XIX.) 
 of fructification  linear, dis- 
 34.  F avonia.  (TaB. XCI.) 
 XVI.  PADINA. 
 XVII.  ZONAEIA. 
 35.  c a lla r is ;  procumbent,  coriaceous,  attached  by  the  under  surface;  upper  
 surface  emitting  cup-shaped,  membranaceous,  orbicular  fronds,  fringed  
 round the margin.  (T ab.  CCCLIX.) 
 36.  p a r ru la ;  procmnbent,  attached by  fibres  from  the  lower  surface, membranaceous, 
   variously lobed;  lobes  free,  rounded.  (T ab .  CCCXLI.) 
 XVIII.  TAONIA. 
 37.  a tom a ria ;  frond  broadly wedge-shaped,  deeply  and irregularly  cleft  longitudinally  
 ;  spores  in wavy transverse  lines, with intermediate  scattered  spores.  
 (T ab .  I.  Bktyota atomaria) 
 XIX.  DICTYOTA. 
 38.  d ichotoma;  frond  regularly  dichotomous,  the  upper  segments  narrower. 
 (Tab.  cm.) 
 XX.  STILOPHOEA. 
 39.  rh iz o d e s ;  subsolid,  much  and  iiTCgularly  branched;  the  lesser  divisions  
 dichotomous,  attenuated;  wart-like  fructification  densely  covering  the  
 branches  and ramuli.  (T ab .  LXX.) 
 40.  Lyngbysei;  frond  tubular,  distended,  dichotomous,  with  rounded  axils,  
 much  attenuated  upwards;  ramuli  forked,  capillary;  sori  subdistant,  in  
 transverse lines.  (T ab .  CCXXXVII.) 
 XXI.  DIOTYOSIPHON. 
 41.  foenicnlaceus.  (T ab .  CCCXXVI.)