55 



It grows on roots and other fubftances, which it covers with white fila- 

 ments two or three lines in length, and fo extremely flender, that under 

 the higheft power of my microfcope, their thicknefs fcarcely appears equal 

 to that of horfe-hair. Some of the filaments are fimple, but mofl of them 

 are Angularly befet towards the middle with a whirl-like clufter of very 

 numerous fimple branches refembling proliferous (hoots. Diflepiments- 

 with a very high power are clearly difcernable, and they divide the fila- 

 ments into joints, the length and thicknefs of which are about equal. 

 The drawing at table C, for which I am indebted to my friend Jofeph 

 Woods, reprefents the plant of the natural fize and when magnified 2. A 

 fragment is alfo added (on a rather larger fcale than it appeared with the, 

 higheft power) to fhew the joints. 



60. ochracea. C. fills ramofiflimis, tenuiffimis, perfragilibus, denfiihme com- 

 pacts, gelatinam ochraceam tamen in floccos fecedentem conftituentibus, 

 diffepimentis fub-obfoletis. T, 62. 



61. laflea. C. filis ramofis in maflam informem gelatinofam confertis, hyalinis, 

 fordide lafteis ; ramis e quovis diffepimento ; articulis longifiimis. T. 79. 



62. typhloderma, C. filis fub-ramofis in pelliculam olivaceam denfiffime im- 

 plexis; articulis longitudine diametrum xquantibus.- T. 83. 



63. fanguined. C. filis ramofis in pelliculam gelatinofam fanguineam, den- 

 fiffime implexis ; ramis divaricatis 5 articulis diametro fefquilongioribus. 



Mr. Young difcovered the prefent fpecies, forming a denfely matted 

 membrane on the furface of fome Ifinglafs fize, in which he had put a 

 quantity of patent yellow to diffolve, but we have fince repeatedly en- 

 deavored to produce it in the fame manner without fuccefs. Its dark 

 crimfon color is of itfelf fufficient to diftinguifh it from its congeners. 



64. pallida. C. filis dichotomis, curvato-flexuofis, faftigiatis, in pelliculam 

 gelatinofa-coriaceam implexis, pallide ochraceis ; dichotomarum anguiis 

 rotundatis; articulis longiffimis. T. 78. 



