99^ CRYPTOGAMIA ALGIE. 



diaphana CONFERVA filamentis geniculatis ramofiflimis, 

 ^4- lamis dichotomis apice forcipatis, feptis ruber- 



rimis, articulis diaphanis.— iVo^vz /pedes. {Fig. 

 nulla.) 



Red dotted Conferva. Anglis. 



Upon rocky Ihores, in bafons of water left by 

 the tides, and often adhering to Fucufes. 



It is a very delicate fpecies, about one or two 

 inches high, the color red. 



The threads are extremely fine, jointed, and very 

 much branched ; the branches dichotomous, 

 and their extremities incurv'd like a pair of 

 pincers. The joints are perfedly diaphanous, 

 Ihort and numerous, and a little contrafted at 

 the ends. The fept a are deep red and opaque, 

 fo that the whole plant, with its ramifications, 

 feems, to the naked eye, to confill only of a 

 branched feries of fmall red dots. 



jihimofaiS' CONFERVA filamentis geniculatis ramofiffimis 

 comprelTis, ramis fupra-decompofitis alterna- 

 tim pinnatis, frudlificationibus ovatis dioicis, 

 £///j._CONFERVA rubra. Hudf. Angl 486. 

 n. 33. (Pluk. pbyt. t. 48, /. 2. mala. Ellis. 

 Philof. Tranfa^. vol. LVII. tab. 18. p. 426. 

 /^.c,C. d, D.opt.) 

 Red-feather'd Conferva. Anglis. 



3 Upo'^ 



