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124 CHiETOPIIORE/E. 



7. Dkaparnaldia nana Hass. 

 Plate X. Fig. f U 



Char. Filaments highly mucous, very slender, sjmriugly 

 hranched. Branches acuminate, not usually ciliated. 

 Cells rather broader than long. 



Draparnaldia sparsa Hassall, in Annals of Nat. Hist. xi. 

 / 428. Conferva nana Dillw. Brit. Conf. t. 30. 



^ Hah. Cheshunt and neighbourhood : A. H. H. Steven- 

 tp lyh-^ ston : Rev. D. Landshorough. 



This is by no means an uncommon species during the spring 

 and early part of the summer, being found attached fre- 

 quently to dead leaves and sticks. In the fineness and mucosity 



^"^^^ of its filaments, as well as in the shortness of its cells, it seems 

 to exhibit some relation to the genus Chcetophora (a bad name, 

 since the species of the genera Batrachospermum and Drapar- 



,~Lj naldia are likewise chcetophorous). From D. tenuis and D. 



— — elongata it is distinguished by the absence of cilia, shorter 

 cells, and from the former again by its smaller size. 



9. CH^TOPHORA Schrank. 



Char. Filaments imbedded in a gelatinous jnatrix, which is 

 either globose or lobed, rarely plain and crustaceous ; ag- 

 gregated, branched, articulated, sometimes setaceous, and 

 issuing from a common base, l^nmchos 7iearly colourless. 

 liamuli colonized. Capsular fructification has only been 

 noticed in C. pisiformis, C. pellita, and C. tuberculosa. 



Derivation. From %atT7;, a bristle, and (popsco, to bear. 



Chcetophora Schrank ; Lyngb. p. 65, 66. ; Fl. Danica, 1. 1 728. ; 

 Agardh, Syst. xix. ; Grev. Scot. Fl. t. 150. Bivu- 

 laria Bonnemais, in Jour. Physic, xciv. p. 176. 3fy- 

 riodactylon Desv. in Jour. Bot. 1809, p. 307. Anhaltia 

 Schwahl, iu LInna3a, ix. p. 127. t. 2. fig. 1. 2. Batra- 

 chospermum sp. Vauch. Conf. t. 12. f. 1, 2. t. 13. 

 fig. 1, 2. 



