CONFERVA GELATINOSA. 



C. filamentis ramofiffimis moniliformibus Iubricis ; ramulis tenuiflimus, 

 penicilliforraibus,fub.verticiUatis, ramoffimis fruftifcris; diiTepimentis 

 obfcurisj amculis breviufculis ; capfulis fub rotundis polyfpermis 



C gelatinofa. Lin. Sp. Plant, p. ,635. Fl. Ang. p. 597. Fl. Scot. p. 9 35. 

 With. IV. p. 134. Eng. Bot. t. 689. 



Chara batrachofperma. Weis Gott. p. 33. t. 1. 



Chara gelatinofa. Roth. Cat. Bot. I. p. 126. 



Batrachofpermum mouiliforme. Roth. Fl. Germ. III. pars 1. p. 480. Cat 

 Bot. II. p, 187. 



Conferva fontana nodofa, fpermatis ranarum inftar lubrica major and fufca. 

 Dill. Mufc. p. 36. t. 7. f. 42. Ray Syn. p. 62. 



Common in clear dreams. 



IN the defcription of C. mutabilis it is remarked, that two out of the five plants 

 which Linnaeus united under this name, are certainly diftincr, and that the re- 

 maining three exhibit little other difference than that of fize of color. Obfer- 

 vations fince made by D. Turner, Efq. and Jofeph Woods, junr. on the Herbari- 

 cum of Dillenius, prove that his No. 43, is marked only by its fmaller fi?e, 

 and hardly deferves to be confidered a variety, and fome fpecimens gathered laft 

 fummer by D. Turner, in Lyn Fynnon Velan, an Alpine Lake on Snowdon, 

 leave it very doubtful whether 4S is not really a diftinft fpecies, its (terns being 

 quite hard, and its monifiform appearance very faint ; fo that I think it belt to 

 defer mentioning it till it fhall fall more immediately under my own infpedion 

 in a recent ftate. 



