I FRESH-WATER ALG^ OF TUE UNITED STATES. I35 



Cells small, subelliptical, profoundly constricted in the middle, joined by translucent bands into 

 families; semicells seen from the front elliptical, and nearly twice as long as broad, from the 

 vertex elliptical, from the side roundish; sinus broad ; clilorophyl masses single in eucli cell • 

 cytioderm thin, smooth. 



I Remarks. — This plant was found by my friend Mr. Quimby growing in a beau- 

 tiful spring above Camden, upon whose bottom it formed a gelatinous, trans- 

 lucent, greenish mass. The cells resemble in sliape those of C. ciicumis, although 

 much smaller. They arc joined by bands into little families, in which the original 

 parent-cell is generally very distinct, it, or rather the two cells into which it first 

 divides, remaining in the centre of the group. The bands are so hyaline that their 

 edges can alone be distinctly seen, and hence the latter often look as tliough they 

 were threads — there appearing to be two parallel threads, or two threads crossing 

 one another, or a single thread, according as the band is fiat, twisted, or on edge. 



It gives me great pleasure to dedicate the species to my friend Mr. Quimby, by 

 whom it was collected. 



Fig. 9, pi. 1, represents one of the family groups of this plant. 



Genus EUASTRUM, Ehrb. 



Cellulae vel oblongiB vel ellipticiB, medio profunde incisoe, symmctrice siimatte, vel lobatae, tumori- 

 bus inflatis circularibus (rare obsoletis) instructae, utroque polo sinuato-emarginatse vel intiso-bilo- 

 batiE, a vertice ellipticae. 



Cells either oblong or elliptic, profoundly incised in the middle, symmetrically sinuate or lobcd, 

 provided with circular inflated protuberances (which are rarely absent), at each end sinuately emar- 

 ginale or iucisely-bilobate, from the vertex elliptic. 



A. Lobo polares in apice late sinualoexcisi. 



A. Polar lobe with its apex broadly sinuately excised. 



E. multilobatiiin, Wood. 



E. magnum, fere duplo longius quam latum, medio profunde constrietum, et cum siuu modice 

 amplo ; a latere medio ventricosum et duplo biumbonatum, ad verticem dilatatum et emar- 

 ginatum ; semicellulis a fronte trilobatis, lobis sinus amplissimis inter se sejunctis ; lobi basale 

 distincte late emarginato, lobo eentrale obtuso, lobo polare late leviter sinuato-cmargiuato ; 

 semicellulis a vertice quinque lobulatis; cytiodermate loevi. 



2)iam.— Long. ^^V^^" = -00475". Lat. ^/fV = 0025". 



Syn.—E. mullilobalum, Wood, Proc. A. N. S., 1869. 



Hob. — In lacu "Saco;" New Hampshire ; (Lewis.) 



E. large, about twice as long as broad, in the centre profoundly constricted, with the sinus 

 moderately large ; from the lateral view somewhat enlarged and doubly biumbonate in the 

 middle ; semicells from the front trilobate, the lobes separated by very wide sinuses, the basal 

 lobe broadly emarginate, the central lobe obtuse, the end lobe broadly and shallowly sinuately 

 emarginate ; semicells from the vertex five-lobed ; cytioderm smooth. 



Remarl's. — The basal lobes of this beautiful desmid are distinctly five lobulate, 



the lateral lobules being longer and broader than the others, which, instead of 



i being emarginate, are obtuse. The sinuses, separating lobes and lobules, are very 



! broad, with very obtuse angles. When the desmid is viewed from two-thirds 



I round, so as to show the anterior and posterior lobides especially, it presents an 



