CONFERVA FLEXUOSA. 



C. filamentis dichotomis rigidiufculis ; ramis flexuofis ; ramulis fub- 

 fimplicibus tenuiffimis, alternatim fecundis patentibus, articulis 

 cylindricis, diflepimentis obfoletis. 



C. flexuofa. Fl. Dan. Tab. 882. 



In the Pools in Yarmouth Salt Marfhes. 



THIS beautiful fpecies was added to our Britifii Flora by D. Turner, Efq. who 

 firft gathered it from among the rejectamenta of the fea atYarmouth, and afterwards 

 difcovered it growing abundantly near that town ; it has not hitherto been found 

 in any other part of England; but thefe plants have been fo little attended 



to, that it may poffibly not be uncommon in fimilar fituations in this ifland. 



The filaments grow in clofely entangled maffes at the bottom of the pools, and 

 extend to the length of from four to eight inches ; they are finer than the hair of 

 the human head; their mode of growth is remarkably flexuofe; their fubftance 

 rather rigid, and deftitute of all lubricity ; their colour in general a pale yellowifh 

 green about the apices, but fo dark as to be almoft black in the main fhoots ; they 

 are feldom more than once or twice divided, but are from bafe to fummit befet 

 with fpreading fimple ramuli, often half an inch long, alternately arranged on each 

 fide of the fhoots, and fo fine at their extremities as to be almoft .invifible. No 

 appearance of diffepiments can be detected without the ufe of the microfcope, and 

 even then they are very faint, and of a paler colour than the intervening joints. — 

 Some opake oval granules are frequently found fcattered on the branches, and the 

 ramuli appear to be filled with others which are lefs in fize and more pellucid; but 

 whether either of them are the fructification I cannot pofitively decide, though I 

 fufpe£t it is not the former, having found exadtly fimilar ones attached to other 

 fpecies. On this, as well as on many different Confervie, fmall pellucid tubes, 

 which I have reprefented on one of the branches, and which are fuppofed by Dv. 



