CONFERVA TOMENTOSA. 



C. filamentis ramoiiflimis tenuiffimis deniilfime implexis ramis divaricatis 

 ultimis fimplicibus articulis longis. 



C. tomentofa". Fl. Ang. p. 594. Fl. Scot. p. 982. With. IV. p. 130. 



C. ceramium tomentofum 0. Roth. Cat. Bot. II. p. 181. Fl. Germ. III. pars. 1. 

 p. 470. 



Conferva marina tomentofa, minus tenerea et ferruginea. Ray, Syn. p. 59. 

 Dill. Mufc. p. 19. t. 3. f. 13. 



In the Sea frequent, generally growing on Fucus veficulofus. 



ALTHOUGH, according to the remarks of my friend Dawfon Turner in the 

 feventh volume of the Linnean Tranfaclions, the fpecimen preferved in the 

 Dillenian Herbarium as Conferva marina, tomentofa, CSV. is only a bad fpecimen 

 of C. littoralis, yet the defcription in the Hiftoria Mufcorum, and alfo the original 

 drawing in Sir Jofeph Banks's Library, feem to prove that Hudfon was correct 

 in referring that fynonyma to the prefent fpecies. 



The color of C. tomentofa is a pale greenifh or ruffet brown, remarkably 

 deftitute of glofs, efpecially when dried : the length generally from three to five 

 inches. Its filaments are repeatedly branched, fo extremely flender as to hardly be 

 difcernible without a microfcope, and fo entangled and twifted together in rope-like 

 coils as to make it abfolutely impoffible to feparate without breaking them. The 

 branches iffue nearly at right angles ; about the root they are rather numerous, 

 but lefs fo towards the end, and the terminal ones are long and fimple ; the length 

 of the joints is at lead three times as great as their thicknefs ; they are perfectly 

 cylindrical, and when examined under a glafs generally appear quite colourlefs, 



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