1002 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJE. 



Upon damp clayey banks, and on the fides of 

 ponds and rivers in fhady places, &c. chiefly 

 in the winter feafon. 



It confifts of extremely fhort, ered, fingle, and 

 branched filaments, invifible without a micro- 

 fcope, but crowded together To as to refemble 

 a green velvet carpet. 



aurea 6. BYSSUS capillacea pulverulenta, fruflificationi- 

 bus fparfis, filamentis fimplicibus ramofifque. 

 , Sp.pl. 163S. (Peiivcr.Gaz. t. i$.f. 3. Dillen, 



miifc. 8. tab. if. 16. Mich. gen. t. 89./. 2 J 



Saffron Rock Byffus. Anglis. 



Upon the rocks on the highland mountains fre- 

 quent, as in Riim^ Skye^ Breadalbane, &c. 



It is compos'd of very fhort foft threads, feme 

 fingle and fome branch'd, clofely entangled 

 together, and growing in little tumid cufhion- 

 like clufters, of a fubftance like fine wool, and 

 of a faffron color when trefh, but turning grey 

 or hoary when prefcrv'd. 



fuha 7. BYSSUS filamentis ramofis falvis. Hudf. Aug. 

 p. 487. {Dillen.mufc. 9. /. i.f. 17.) 

 Red-haired Byffus. Anglis. 

 Upon wet hah-decay'd wood, lying in fhady 



places, in autumn and winter, 

 It is compos'd of long branched and tawny 

 threads, entangled together in a loofe mat. 



5 BYSSUS 



