CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. '98^ 



h is three or four inches Idng, of a red color, and 

 the fjze of packthread. 



The principal ftaik flioots out lateral taper 

 branches, growing generally alternate, but 

 often without order, the lowermoft the longefl:, 

 fo that the plant feems to affeft a conical 

 form. Thefe branches are again frequently 

 fubdividcd in the fame manner a fecond time, 

 and all are every where clofcly covered with 

 vhirls of Ihort dichotomous ramuli, about a line 

 in length, lying over one another, fo as to 

 make the whole plant appear rough and 

 fpongy. 

 View'd under the microfcope, the whole fabric 

 of this Conferva appears to be curioufly jointed. 

 In the principal (talk and the larger branches, 

 the interitices between the joints are cylindri- 

 cal. In the whirls they are contraded at each 

 tnA or joint, as if tightly bound with a firing. 

 Through the centre of thefe interftices runs a 

 red parenchymous line ; tiie joints alfo are red, '^'4. 

 ■ . the other parts diaphanous. 



**** Filament is nodojis. 

 Jluviatilis CONFERVA filis fimpliciffimis fetiformibus rec- 

 *5* tis', geniculis crafiioribus angulatis. Sp. pL 



1635- (Dilien. nrufc. 39. /. 7. /. 47.) 



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