97^ CRYP'ro6AMIA ALG^. 



-< >.... .,:..: • \. p 2 11. ;;, 8. tab. Sg. f. 8, lo, and ii. Dilkn. 

 ■■ ' ' ' tnufc. t.2.f. 3. hon.) 



;..••; (•;..,-. Spring Conferva, or fmall BylTus-like Conferva. 



Jtjglis. 

 ,:\'.:Vf. : jj. grows under water on the fides of limpid 

 *■ ■'■ '■ ' ■'- •"' fprings or fountains, and on the banks of ri- 

 ■1.. ,.'. ' -. , vers, IV, 



, f It is extremely tender, and perhaps the Icafl: of all 



, the genus. 

 n >v J .ij It confifts of the fined threads, fimple and un- 



- ^' ^' branch'd, about a quarter of an inch long, fel- 

 • '- •' '' dom more, often lefs, growing in tufis and 

 h. . ... r-> diverging every way as from a centre, generally 



of a dull fufcous green, fometimes a black 

 ^'' v' -'"-.- green, and, in fountains impregnated with acids, 



- w '' ^ ' ' of an ochre color. 



Sometimes the threads grow fo thick together ai 

 i;c;.:i; .;.i '■' ' to form a fpongy mat, refembling a moufe's 

 J... r):;.r>3ij::; : ^\^^ : ...,. ..' - - 



i3'j:.:.£ , ,^. fjaller affirms, that the threads are frequently 

 ^-'Z~'''^' '■ .. ; branch'd, and we obferv'd a few among our 

 -"■' ^' •- -'^'-'-~ fpecimens that v/ere (o. 



'-(onfragofa. CONFERVA filamentis mucofis fimplicibus 

 3» sequalibus violaceis.— a Lifm^'O non defcripta 



(DiUen.mufc. 15. /. 2./. 4.) • 

 £L'0i..G..!p3i ^;.'Catara6t Conferva. Anglis. 

 '-%', .•'5''.vrr^/;We. obierv'd it- upon the rocks in the waterfalls 

 • -^£ •'-! on 



