CONFERVA PALLIDA. 



C. filamentis dichotomis, curvato-flexuofis, faftigiatis dichotomiarun, 

 angulis rotundis, articulis longiffimis. 

 On Yellow Ochre in Ifinglafs fis 



lze. 



MY friend W. W. Young, having let fome yellow ochre remain about a fort- 

 night m a pot of ifinglafs fi ze , found the furface of the ochre nearly covered by 

 the prefent minute and interefting Conferva. 



The color is of a light yellowilh brown : the filaments are confiderably finer 

 than the fmalleft human hair, and are matted together into denfe leathery mafles 

 generally about an inch in length and of the thicknefs of a (hilling; they are 

 much branched with repeated dichotomies of which the angles are uniformly 

 rounded ; the branches are angularly flexuofe and curved all nearly of tire fame 

 length, and blunt and of a lighter color at the fummits : the length of the joints 

 is irregular, in the ultimate branches they are equal to eight or ten times the 

 diameter, and in the main branches are generally much longer. I have not been 

 able to difcover any frudification. 



It appears from the defcription in the Catalefta Botanica to be nearly allied to 

 Roth's Conferva faftigiata, but in that fpecies the angle of the dichotomy is faid 

 to be acute, and the joints very fhort and fomewhat beaded. 



In drying it adheres to both Glafs and Paper. 



A. C. pallida, natural fize. 



B. Ditto, magnified i. 



H 



