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their fomewhat greater diameter. It grows in thick tufts, not unfrequently 

 three inches in length, and of a very dark blackifh green color. For the 

 drawing, which is made from a dried fpecimen, and reprefents the fila- 

 ments when magnified with powers 2 and 1, I am indebted to my friend 

 Mr. Hooker. 



16. difltrta. C. filis fpurie ramofis, fub-fr.ri£Us, cceruleo-virefcentibus ; ramis 

 e filamentis coadunatis, diftortis ; articulis breviffimis. T. 22 and T. A. 



The figure of this plant, T. 22, is erroneous as far as relates to the 

 branches, which inftead of being as there reprefented, appear rather to be 

 merely diiierent filaments united together in the fame way as thofe of C. 

 mirabilis. The affinity between thefe two fpecies is very ftrong, and the 

 leading difference feems to be that in C. mirabilis the fides of the two 

 filaments are joined and continue longitudinally united, whereas in C. 

 dijlorta the end only of one filament is attached to the fide of another. 

 This curious union is reprefented in my fupplementary plate A, as it 

 appears with power 1 of the microfcope, and alio the fructification which 

 I have defcribed in the introduction to this work. 



b. articulis longis. 

 * Ji malices. 



17. zonata. C. filis fimplicibus, tenuibus, lubricis, virefcentibus ; articulis 

 diametrum longitudine vix fuperantibus, granulis in fafcias latas coar- 

 cervatis. 



C. zctiata. Weber, and Mohr. Reife durch Schwedeii, p. 97. T. 1. f. 7. 



a. b. Roth. Cat. Bot. III. p. 269. 

 C. lubrica. T. 47. 



Found lately at Lound, near Yarmouth, by Mr. Hooker, and in Sufl'ex 

 by Mr. Borrer. 



18. rivularis. C. filis fimplicibus, tenuibus, longiflimis, dense compa&is, 

 plerumque contortis, intense viridibus ; articulis diamctro fefqui longiori- 

 bus. T. 39. f 



