1002 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 



Upon damp clayey banks, and on the fides of 

 ponds and rivers in fhady places, &c. chiefly 

 in the winter feafon. 



It confi^s of extremely fliort, erefl, fingle, and 

 branched filaments, invifible without a micro- 

 fcope, but crowded together fo as to refemble 

 a green velvet carpet. 



durea 6. BYSSUS caplllacea pulverulenta, fru6tificationi- 

 bus fparfis, filamentis fimplicibus ramofifque. 

 Sp. pi. 1638. (Petiver.Gaz. t. 15./. 3. Dillen. 

 mitfc. 8. tab. i.f, 16. Mich. gen. t. 89./. 2. J 



Saffron Rock By fills. Anglis. 



Upon the rocks on the highland mountains fre- 

 quent, as in Rum.^ Skye^ Breadalhane., &c. 



It is compos'd of very lliort foft threads, feme 

 fingle and fome branched, clofely entangled 

 together, and growing in little tumid cufhion- 

 like clufters, of a fubftance like fine wool, an4 

 of a faffron color when freih, but turning grey 

 or hoary when preferv*d. 



fulija 7. BYSSUS filamentis ramofis fulvis. Hudf. Ang, 

 p. 487. ' {Dillen. mufc. 9. t. i.f. 17.) 

 Red-haired Byffus. Jnglis. 

 Upon wet haif-decay'd wood, lying in fhady 



places, in autumn and wmter. 

 It is compos'd or long branched and tawny 

 threads, entangled together in a loofe mat. 



5 BYSSUS 



