312 BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. \CJdorosj)erm€a . 



Family XIX. COXFEEYE^. 



" L' onda dal mar divisa 

 Bagna la valle e '1 monte ; 



Va passagiera iu fiume, ' 



Va prigioniera iu fonte ; 

 IMormora sempre, c geme, 

 V Fia che nou torua al mar : — 



Al mai', dov' ella uacque. 

 Dove acquisto gli umori. 

 Dove da' lunglii errori 

 Spera di riposar." — Metastasio, Artaserse* 



Genus XC. CLADOPHOEA, Kiitzing, 



Gen. Char. Filaments green, jointed, attached, uniforai, 

 branched. Fruit, aggregated grannies or zoospores, contained 



* " "Waters, from the ocean borne, 



Bathe the valley and the hill ; 

 Prisoned in the fountain, mourn, 



Warble down the winding rill ; 

 But wherever doomed to strav, 



Still they murmur and complain, 

 StiU pm'sue their lingering way. 



Till they join their native main. 

 After many a year of woe. 



Many a long, long wandering past ; 

 \N'here at first they learned to flow. 



There they hope to rest at last." 



Beattif, Translation. 



