CRYPTOGAMIA ALG2E, ^g^ 



Thejoints are very fine, hardly difcernible with- 

 out a microfcope. The plant, when dry'd, 

 coheres together, and forms a fubftance like a 

 piece of gauze or fine linen. 



CONFERVA filamentis geniculatis, ramulis bre- 

 vioribus multindis. Sp.pl.i6^y. (Moris, ht^. 

 Ox. 3. p. 644. fe^. 15. /, 4. /. 2. qua modum 

 glomeratum exprimii. Billen. mufc. 28. /. 5. 

 /.31. A.B.) 



Green Clufter Conferva. Anglis. 



In pure frefli-water fprings, brooks, and fmall 

 rivers. 



It varies much, but may be diftinguiih'd from 

 its congeners, by having jointed threads from 

 fix inches to a foot in length, of a green color, 

 divided and fubdivided into numerous alternate 

 little branches, terminating in many fliort ex- 

 panded pencil-like fegments. Ti.e branches 

 are often twifted together in a cord or bundle 

 at the bafe and middle part, but dilated at 

 their extremities. The joints are every v/here 

 vifible v/ith the aid of a microfcope, the inter- 

 feclions appearing like dark green fpots, and 

 the interllices pellucid. 



It varies with threads m.ore of lefs branched, more 

 or lefs lax or crowded, and the extreme feg- 

 ments longer or fliorter. 



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