; CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. looi 



It confifts of extremely fhort filaments, crowded 

 ■^ together fo as to form a mat or cruft, extremely 



like a piece of crimfon plufh or velvet. 

 ^' When moiften'd it yields a fweet fcent, fomething 



• like violets, which induced me at firft to think 



' ' . it the BYSSUS Jolithus. Lin. but that is fari- 

 naceous, and the kind jufl defcrib'd is capillary. 

 Linnaus however, (in his Flor. Suec. p. 438.) 

 ' ■ - ' ■ fays, that he has perceiv'd red filaments in the 

 B. Jolithus^ growing upon a fafiron-colour'd 

 farinaceous cruft, fo that ours may poffibly 

 be confidered yet as a variety of the B. Joli- 

 thus, Lin.fp, pi. 1638. 

 ^ ' ' HaJler ranks the B. Jolithus amongft the crufta- 

 ceous Lichens, and fays he could difcover in it 

 ' - no filaments, but only a red cruft flightly 



farinaceous, turning to a yellowifh-green co- 

 ^ • lor in decay. Helvet. hijl. III. p. 103. n. 2090. 

 ' ' In the midft of thefe uncertainties, wejudged it 



• ■ moft advifeable to defcribe ours as a diftin(5b 

 fpecies, in order to avoid confufion. 



velutina 5. BYSSUS capillacea viridis, filamentis ramofis, 

 Syft. nat. edit. 13. p. 819. Sp. pi. 1638. n. 3. 

 (Michel, gen. 211. n. 7. tab. Z(^. f. 5. Dilkn. 

 mufc. 7. tab. 1. /. 14.) 

 Green velvet ByfTus. Anglis. 



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