308 THE MARINE BOTAKIST. 



0. S. G. Casparyi, Phyc. Brit., PI. 354 B. 

 Falmouth. Penzance. Forms a thin web, of a 

 hg'ht green colour. Filaments more slender than 

 in the -above ^ gracefully curved rather than twisted. 



CONFERVA. 



Name, from conferniminarey to consolidate, because some 

 of the species were used by the ancients for binding up 

 fractured limbs. 



Filaments green, attached or floating, un- 

 branched; composed of a single series of cells or 

 articulations. Fruit: aggregated granules or 

 zoospores, contained in the articulations, having at 

 some period a proper ciliary motion. — Harv. 



CONFERVA MELAGONIUM. — STIFF UP- 

 RIGHT CONFERVA. 



Filaments five or eight inches high ) seldom more 

 than three or four springing from the same root, 

 tnick and wiry. Colour a dark green. Grows on 



