but once, though I have repeatedly sought for them. They
were originally noticed many years ago by Sir W. J. Hooker,
and figured from his drawing, in one of the supplementary plates
of Dillwyn’s Confervce, and on the faith of that figure the plant
has been erected into a genus by Bory,— measure sanctioned
by Endlicher,—and placed in the neighbourhood of Ectocarpus.
Whatever the nature of these bodies may be, I think that this
little plant can scarcely be removed from its congeners without
violence; and certainly am unwilling to admit a relationship to
Ectocarpus. The spore-like bodies may be of the nature of
buds, or excrescences, and may possibly be afterwards changed
into the tufted ramuli, which are frequently found, as it were,
bursting from the sides of the filament.
Fig. 1. C a lo th k i.x c o n p e r v io o la , growing on Ceramium ruhrum:— the natural
size. 2. Portion of a fascicle. 3. A proliferous filament; and portion of
filament with supposed spores. 4. More highly magnified segment of
filament:—magnified.