258 OSCILLATORE^. 



d. Filaments hrown^ brittle^ not coriaceous, 



24. OSCILLATORIA DiCKIEI Hass. 



Plate LXXII. Fig. 13. 



Char. Stratum light chestnut, gelatinous, glossy. Filaments 

 long, straight, brittle, rather thick, Strias visible, sub- 

 distant, e 

 Hab, Pools of fresh water near the sea, Aberdeen : Dr. 

 Dickie. 



The colour of this species is so peculiar as at once to dis- 

 tino-uish it from all others which have been described. This 

 colour is preserved in drying ; the filaments are of nearly the 

 same diameter with those of O. tenuis, but they preserve their 

 calibre when dried. Several fine specimens of this plant 

 were sent me by Dr. Dickie, and which have undergone no 

 change since they have been in my possession, now some 

 weeks. 



e. Filaments collected into close erect tufts. 



In the species of this division of the genus there would 

 appear to be an evident transition to Hivularia, the filaments 

 in one, O. lucifuga, and perhaps in the others, being subulate, 

 and which circumstance induced me, as well as its erect 

 habit, to place that species in the genus Hivularia. I am now 

 satisfied that it should either remain in the division of the 

 genus Oscillatoria in which it has been placed by Mr. 

 Harvey ; or that Kutzing's Symploea ought to be adopted for 

 the reception of the species of tliis division of Oscillatoria. 

 Kutzing thus defines the genus : 



Trichomata adscendentia vaginata in fasciculos erectos, basi 

 confluentes, coalita ; vaginae ex membrana simplicima, hyalina, 

 (nee striatse nee lamellosa?) formatae. 



25. Oscillatoria Friesii Ag, 



Char. Stratum bright green, bristling unth the elongated, erect, 

 tooth-like fascicles of filaments. 



