CONFERVA SETACEA. 



tu. filamentis sub-dichotomis, fafciculatis, ftrictis, virgatis, lubricis, 

 rami's articulisque cylindraceis longiiEmis ; fructu laterali peduncu- 

 late 



C. fetacea. Fl. Ang. p. 599. "With. IV. p. 137. E. Bot. XXIV. p. 1689. 



C. marina gelatinofa, corallinx inftar geniculata tenuior. Dill. mufc. p. 33. 

 t. 6. f. 37. Turn. Tr. of Linn. Soc. VII. p. 107. 



Corallina confervoides gelatinofa rubens, ramulis et geniculis peranguftis, R. 

 Syn. p. 34. 



On Rocks and Stones in the Sea, not unfrequent at the latter end of Summer 

 and beginning of Autumn, 



C. SETACEA has been obferved on moft if not all of our flioreg, though in 

 fome it is much more plentiful than on others. Where it inhabits it is almoft 

 impoflible it mould be overlooked, as its rich color muft attract the notice even 

 of the moft incurious obferver. It conftantly grows in thick bundles, feldom 

 exceeding four or five inches in length. The root is a fmall callus and give* 

 rife to a number of rich crimfon filaments, generally more or lefs tinged with 

 purple; they are branched with repeated dichotomies, the angles whereof are 

 uniformly acute; the ultimate branches are long; the joints cylindrical; their 

 length, efpecially in the main^tem, generally eight or ten times their breadth, 

 and every where much longer than in any of its congeners. We are informed 

 in Withering, on the authority of Col. Velley, that the fructification is in globular 



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