CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. 98-- 



It is three or four inches long, of a red color, and 

 the fize of packthread. 



The principal ftalk fl:ioots out lateral taper 

 branches, growing generally alternate, but 

 often without order, th^ jowermofl: the longefi:, 

 fo that the plant feems to affedl a conical 

 form. Thefe branches are again frequently 

 fubdivided in the fame manner a fecond time, 

 and all are every where clofely covered with 

 whiils of faort dichotomous ramuii, about a line 

 ih length, lying over one another, fo as to 

 make the whole plant appear rough and 

 fpongy. 



View'd under the micrdfcope, the whole fabric 

 of this Co7iferva appears to be curioufly jointed. 

 In the principal ftalk and the larger branches, 

 the interftices between the joints are cylindri- 

 cal. In the whirls they are contracted at each 

 end or joint, as if tightly bound with a ftring. 

 Through the centre of thefe interftices runs a 

 red parcnchymous line ; the joints alfo are red, 

 the other parts diaphanous. 



**** Filnmevtis nodqfis. 

 Jluviatilis CONFERVA filis fimpliciffimis fetiformibus rec- 

 '5- tis, geniculis craflioribus angulatis. Sp. pL 



1635. (Dillen. mufc. ^<^. L 7. /. 47-) 



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