Conferva.} ALGiE CONFERVOIDE/E. '3.37 



E. Bot. t. 2192. Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 107.— 3. marina, Ag.—C. 

 Icetevirens, Dillw. Conf. t. 48. E. Bot. t. 1854. 



In streams and rivulets.— /J. in the sea: both varieties very common. 

 — This forms beautiful bushy tufts. A polymorphous plant ; but suffici- 

 ently marked by the ultimate fasciculato-secund ramuli. 



36. C. agagropila, Linn. {Globe Conferva* or Moor Balls) ; 

 filaments issuing: from a central point forming dense roundish 

 balls, branches erect siibsecund straight, articulations '3 — 4 times 

 longer than broad, the uppermost cylindrical, the lower swollen 

 upwards.— E. Bot. t. 1377. Dilho.' Conf. t. 87. 



In lakes, rare. North Wales, Rev. H. Unties. North of Scotland, 

 Mr. Brodie. Prestwick Car, Mr. Winch. Culmere pool and Whitemere, 

 Shropshire, Rev. Mr. Williams. Cunnemara, Ireland, Mr. J. T. Macl.ai/. — 

 This extraordinary production varies in diameter, from half an inch to 

 2 — 4 inches, forming a compact green ball, which is said in E. Bot. to 

 be sometimes used for wiping pens upon. The name is derived from its 

 resemblance to the balls that are found in the stomach of goats. The 

 other Scottish station, (Mugdoch Lake,) given in the Flora Scotica,\s 

 incorrect, and belongs to C.fracta. 



b. Inhabiting the sea. 



37. C. pellucida, Hudson, (pellucid three-branched Conferva); 

 filaments cartilaginous rigid erect bright pellucid-green tricho- 

 tomous, axils acute, articulations many times longer than 

 broad.— Dillir. Conf t. 90. E. Bot. t. 1716, (excellent.) A<j. 

 Syst. Alg. p. 120. 



Rocks near low-water mark, rare. Yarmouth, Dr. Hooker. Plymouth, 

 Mr. Sconce. Miltown Mai bay, IV. If. Harvey.— Root an expanded 

 disk, formed Of tough fibres ; steins subsolitary, rising about an inch, 

 undivided, afterwards much branched, very tough and wiry; branches 

 and ramuli pretty regularly trichotomous. 



38. CHmiekituuB, Dillw. ( Miss Hutckini' Conferva); filaments 



cartilaginous rigid glaucous-green tiexuoso tufted bristly, ramuli 

 COrred simple <o furnished (HI the interior face with processes 

 of one articulation, articulations twice as long as broad. — Dillw. 

 Conf t. 109. Ag. Syst Alg. p. 120. 



Very rare. Bantry bay, nol uncommon, Miu llutdnns. Tor Abbey, 

 Mrs. Griffiths. — Filament* thicker than borse-hair, deep glaucous-green, 

 M with changeable tints when fresh, and under the water appearing 

 almost white," flexuose, 5 — S inches Ion;,', niinh branched. Mrs, Griffiths 

 ■ends ns an extraordinary variety of this species from Torqaay, with the 

 branches much divaricated and almost bare of ramuli 



89. ('. ivpishis. 1/inn. (or*** Rock ('•/<(< mi), filaments 



membranaceous rigid dark-green straight tufted bushy, branches 

 erect crowded, ramuli fascicled appreated, articulations •'*— i 

 times longer than broad.— Dillw. Conf. U 23. /-' Dot. t. 1699. 

 \g. Syst* Mg* y. 1 1 ~i • 

 < >n marine rocks, ren common. 



