CONFERVA GLOMERATA. 



C. filamentis ramoflffimis ; ramus alternisj ramulis fecundis, fafciculatis, 

 penicilliformibus ; diffepimemis pellucidis ; articulis cylindricis lon- 

 giufculis. 



C. glomerata. S. Plant, p. 1637. Fl. Ang. p. 602. EL Scot. p. 993. With 



IV. p. 140. Fl. Dan. t. 651. 2. 

 C. criftata. Roth. Cat. Bot. I. p. 193. II. p . 220 . F l. Germ. III. p. JI2 . 



C. fontinalis ramofiffima glomeratlm congefta. Dill. Mufc. p. 28. t. 5. f. 31. 

 Ray. Syn. p. 59. n. 8. 



C. viridis capillacea, breviorlbus fetis, ramofior f. Conferva minor ramofa. 

 - Morifon. Hill. Ox. III. p. 644. f. 15. t. 4. f. 2. 

 On Stones and Wood in clear Rivers and Streams. 



THIS elegant fpecies delights in the pureft waters, and, as may be concluded 

 from its appearing in nearly every Flora, adorns molt of the limpid ftreams in 

 Europe.— The root is a fmall callus, whence arifes the principal ftem, varying from 

 two or three inches to a foot in length, and repeatedly divided and fubdivided; the 

 ultimate branches are alternate, and befet on the upper fide with a ramulus at the 

 end of nearly every joint, fo as to give them a bufh-like appearance, which is 

 highly charafteriftic of the plant. The fruftification has not yet been difcovered, 

 but I think there can be little doubt of its confifting in capfules nearly fimilar to' 

 thofe figured in the other fpecies. Linneus has erred in the fynonyms of this 

 plant in the Species Plantarum,he having there referred to « Dill. Mufc. 28. t. 5. 

 f. 32. and t. 5. f. 28 & 29.' though under C. vagabunda which immediately pre- 

 cedes it, he had before referred to t. 5. f. 32, and again to t. 5. f. 29, as his C. 

 rupeftris. He alfo fortunately gave as a fynonym of this plant Morifon's C. 

 viridis capillacea, & c . to which Dillenius refers, as his C. fontinalis ramofiffima 



