CONFERVA TURNERI. 



C. filameutis pinnatis fafciculatis ; primis oppoluis fub-fimplicibus ; 

 articulis longis diffepimentis pellucidis; capfulis in pinnis infra 

 medium fecundis, pedunculatis, globofis. 



Ceramium Turneri. Roth. Cat. Bot. III. p. 128. Tab. 5. 



On Fuci and Corallines in the Sea at Cromer. D. Turner, Efq. 



THE prefent fpecies was firft difcovered fome years ago by my friend Mr. 

 Turner, and was communicated by him to Dr. Roth, who named it in honor 

 of its difcoverer, and published a defcrip'ion in the third Fafciculus of his 

 Catale<£ta Botanica, with a good drawing from the accurate pencil of Profeflbr 

 Mertens. The fpecies which has fubfequentiy been figured in Eiiglifh Botany 

 under the fame name, is the C. plumula of Ellis and of this work. 



C. turneri is found in great abundance on fuci and corallines in the fea at 

 Cromer, during the fummer months, and from its elegant growth and delicate 

 rofe color, m^y be confidered one of the mod beautiful of the Conferva:. Its 

 habit is bufhy, forming thick tufts. The filaments rarely exceed an inch in 

 length, and arc undivided, but befet with oppofite and moftly fimple pinnae, 

 from four to fix lines long, between patent and horizontal, which are fuf- 

 ficient readily to diftinguifh this fpecies from C. rofea, to which in appearance 

 it is molt allied. The length of the joints is about thrice greater than their 

 diameter, and they are perfectly colorlefs at their diflepiments. The capfules 

 are numerous, globofe, moftly raifed on fhort footftalks, and arranged together 

 on the upper fide of the lower pinnae : though in general folitary, it occafionally 

 happens that two are fupported on the fame peduncle. 

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