CRYPTOGAMIA. ALG. Conferva, (6) Threads 
jointed. . 
‘The figure of Dillenius is by no means characteristic. This 
is evidently distinct from Conf. corallina, the joints much more 
slender and not thick at the ends. It differs also from that 
in producing short lateral thorn-like substances. Fructifications 
in globular clusters on short lateral pedicles; rarely found. It 
may readily be known by the intolerable odour which it imparts 
when recent. Major Vetzey. — Its colour resembles that of the 
Phallus impudicus. Its beautiful crimson colour is owing to a 
liquid in the cavity of the joints which may be pushed to either 
end of the joint but not beyond the septum. On cutting 
through a joint and pressing out the liquor, the plant remains 
colourless, and the liquor under the microscope appears to be a 
mucilage containing a great number of very minute seeds. 
Stones and rocks in the sea. A. May—Oct, 
C. Branches forked, long, bristle-shaped : joints very 
short. Huns. ed. i. 484. ed. ii. 599.. 
Threads 9 inches to a foot long, of the thickness of fine 
packthread, smooth, brownish purple, branched at the base. 
Branches very long. Huns. 2. 27. Conf. elongata of Gmel. 
syst. veg. is Hudson’s C, rubra. Pee 
Stones and rocks in the sea on the coast of Devonshire, 
Cornwall, Sussex, and Isle of Man. — A, April—Oct, 
C. Threads forked, the points approaching like forceps : 
joints fringed. Hups. 599. 
Ellis in Phil. Trans. vol. 57. p. 425. te 18—H. b. 
On the finer kinds of Fuci, A. May—Sept.. 
C. Branches in bundles, nearly of the same length. — 
Ellis Phil. trans. vol. 57.t. 18. a. A. and 6. B. at p. 426— 
Dill. 6. 35—Barr. 1301—Pet. fuc. 1. 15—Pluk. 47. 10- 
FI. dan. 395—Barr. 1290. 1 and 2. 
Not so long as the other species but more bearded ; with nu- 
merous papi rising from the base which are very much 
branched. Male and Female on distinct plants. Linn, Cap- 
sules transparent. Seed readily observable if examined in water 
with a microscope. Male Flowers in catkins. The capsules 
containing the seeds are placed in the forks at the termination 
of the branches, They are almost transparent, and when magni- 
fied the seeds are visible within them if the plant. is kept moist 
-with water. The male flowers are collected into catkins, 
which stand on the terminations of the branches, not in the 
forks. Exxis. is. In some specimens the seeds are fixed in the 
vesicular distended points of cs branches; in others there are 
globular substances in the forks of the branches. Major Vet- 
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elonga'ta. 
cilia’ta. 
polymor’- 
pha. 
