CONFERVA PHOSPHOREA. 



C. filamcntis breviffimis ramofis, adfcendentibus, denfiffime in crnflam 

 uniformam implcxis, violaceis ; difTepimentis obfoluis, articulis 

 longiufculis. 



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ByfTus phofphorea. Sp. PI. p. 1638. Fl. Ang. p. 605. Fl. Scot. p. 1 

 With. IV. p. 143. Fl. Germ.. 564. 



Auriculatfa phofphorea. Sowerby's Englifli Fungi. III. f. 350. 



ByfTus lanuginofa violacea lignis adnefcens. Ray. Syn. p. 56. Dill. Mufc. p. 54. 

 t. i.f. 6. 



ByfTus purpurea dehcatifTima, arborum corticibus adnafcens, breviffimis & tenuif- 

 fimis filamentis. Mich. Gen. p. 211. t. 90. f. 3. 



ByfTus ccerulea csefpitofa crifpa. Hall. Hift. p. 2102. 



Fungus violaceus herpatis modo lignis irrepens. Ray. Hift. III. p. 23. 



On decaying wood. 



THE Byffi filamentofae, moft of which I have had an opportunity of examining, 

 fo nearly refemble each other in ftru£t,ure and mode of growth, that the fame 

 reafons for which aurea and purpurea were transferred to the Confervse, will 

 equally apply to them all, though probably to none lefs than to the prefent 

 fpecies, which it is not without confiderable reluctance that I atlmit among the 

 Confervae, regarding it as a plant with the true hiftory cf which we are at prefent 

 very little acquainted. Mr. Sowerby has clafTed it among the Auricularis, and 

 obferves that in its moft perfect ftate it feems to belong to that tribe, in which 

 opinion he may poffibly be correct, as I have myTelf feen fpecimens of which 

 the edges were of a pale ftraw color like many of thofe Fungi, and inclined to 



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