21. 



: CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 993 



•f • •: Thejoints are very fine, hardly difcerniblewith- 

 ,. .• O'Jt a microfcope. The plant, when dry'd, 

 coheres together, and forms a fubftance like a 

 piece of gauze or fine linen. 



glomerata CONFERVA filamentis genlculatis, ramulis bre- 

 vioribiis multifidis. Sp.pl. \6'^j. {Moris, hiji. 

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



', . glomeratum exprimit. Dillen. 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 diftinguidi'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 (hort ex- 



-. ' panded pencil-like fegments. The branches 



. are often twilled together in a cord or bundle 

 at the bafe and middle part, but dilated at 

 their extremities. The joints are every where 

 vifible with the aid of a microfcope, the inter- 

 fcclions appearing like dark green fpots, and 

 the interftices pellucid. 



It varies with threads more or lefs branched, more 

 or lefs lax or crowded, and the extreme feg- 

 ments longer or fiiorter. 



S f f CON- 



