CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE. $83 



deftkute of joints, many of them crov/ded or 

 twifled together in fuch a manner as to refem- 

 ble thick threads or thongs which have the 

 appearance of large branches, out of which 

 the finer threads feem to grow, though in re- 

 ality the thicker threads are compos'd of thefe i- 

 finer ones. This peculiarity, together with the 

 ruflet color, readily diftinguilhes this fpecies. 



* * * Fila7nentis hirfutis, 

 CONFERVA filamentis ramofis sequalibus, ra- 

 mulis fimplicibus imbricatis. Hudf. Fl. Afig. 

 . / , -'; p. 480. «. II. (Moris, hiji. Ox. III. 650. /eff. 

 15. /. 9./. 6. hn.) 

 Sponge Conferva. Anglis. 



Amongft the fea rocks m the Frith of Forth^ and 

 •iriJ :. ■ - many other places. • - 



The plant is about thr ee inches long, of a dark, 

 ' dull, green color, turning when old to a fuf- 



- - i:^ :. cous green. 



..-.-- - Many ilalks arife from the fame root, irregularly 



; branch'd, the ftalks and branches fimilar, of the 



. ■ fize of Imall packthread, every where clofely 



imbricated with fine, fliort, fimple, rigid hairs, 



v/hich appear through the microfcope to be 



jointed with numerous tranfverfe fe-pta, and to 



grow round the branches without order, like 



the hairs on a moufe's tail. 



V • CONFERVA. 



