East coast, Colento ; Cook's Straits, Lyall. — Probably common in all rocky bays. (Chili,
Fnegia, Falkland Islands, Kerguelen's Land.)

19. ECKLONIA, Hornemann.
Koot scutate or dividing into short fibres. Frond olive-green, pinnatifid,

ecostate ; segments produced from the magnified teeth of a simple lamina,

which is contracted to a solid or inflated stem at the base. Sori superficial

on the lower part of the pinnae, of narrow ellipsoid spores, mixed with cla-

vate inarticulate filaments.
Often gigantic weeds, natives of the Southern Ocean, of which one species inhabits also
the Canary Islands, and the other, with a long trumpet-like stem, inhabits the Cape of Good
Hope.
1. E. radiata, J. Agardh;—m. JNT. Z. ii. 217. Frond 1-2 ft. long;
stem solid or sparingly inflated.
Var. a. Frond palmately pinnatilobate, smooth ; lobes subcuneate, spinnlose, toothed. —
J. Ag. Sp. Alg. i. 146. Fucus^ Turn. Hist. t. 134. Capea radiata, £ndl.
Var. i8. exasperata, E. exasperata^ J. Ag. 1. c. 146 ; Fl. N. Z, — Surface of the frond
spinulose. — Capea biruncinata, Moutagne in Phytogr. Canariens. Crypt, t. 7 ; Fl. Antarct.
160 ; Laminariay Bory in Voy. Coquil. t. 10.
Var. y. Richardiana. E. Richardiana^ J. Agardh, 1. c. 147 ; Fl. N. Z. 1. c. — Frond
elongate, pinnately decompound, smooth ; lobes minutely toothed. — Capea, Kuetzing.
Var. 8. flabelUformis. JS. flabelliformi^y J. Ag. 1. c. 147 ; Fl. N. Z. 1. c. — Stem some-
what inflated, 2 feet long; frond pinnately decompound, surface rugose, plaited. — Capea,
nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 4, 528 ; Laminaria, A. Richard, Fl. Nov. Zel. t. 1, 2.
Conmion along the shores of the Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander,
etc. (Australia, Tasmania^ Chili> Canary Islands.)



Ecklonia'] IX. alg^e. 65?



. 20. ZONABIA, Agardh.
