but the diflepiments are dark brown. Dr. Roth defcribes the fruit of the plant 

 as confiding of fcattered globular feffile capfules, but thefe I have not feen myfelf, 

 nor am I aware that they have been found in England. How far that learned 

 author is right in making Co/if. albida Huds. a variety of C. tomentofa, is what I 

 have yet no means of determining. The neareft affinity of the prefent fpecies is 

 C. littoralh, with which it is fo frequently confounded, that though by no means 

 an uncommon fpecies, it is one of thofe which are leafl accurately known to 

 Britifh botanifts, it may however at once be diftinguifhed from that plant by its 

 paler color, its diffimilar mode of growth, its different ramification, and long 

 joints. 



In dying it retains its color, and adheres though not firmly to both glafs and 

 paper : the filaments in this ftate are ftill more clofely matted than when frefli, 

 fo that the plant has the appearance of being nearly allied to C. fpongiofa, or by 

 a young botanift may even be miftaken for that fpecies. 



A. C. tomentofa, natural fize. 



B. Ditto magnified 4. 



C. Ditto Ditto i. 



