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Ser. CHLOROSPERME. Fam. Confervee. 
Puate CXXIV. 
CLADOPHORA HUTCHINSIA, Aa. 
Gen. Cuar. Milaments green, jointed, attached, uniform, branched. Przit 
aggregated granules or zoospores, contained in the joints, having, at 
some period, a proper ciliary motion. Ciapornora (Avtz.),—from 
kdados, a branch, and popew, to bear. 
CrapopHora Lutchinsia ; filaments setaceous, of equal diameter throughout, 
rigid, crisp, elaucous-green, flexuous, tufted, bristling ; ramuli erecto- 
patent, simple or furnished along the inner face with short processes 
of one or two articulations ; apices very obtuse; articulations twice or 
thrice as long as broad, the jomts contracted. 
Conrerva Hutchinsie, Dillw. Conf. t.109. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. 
p- 357. Harv. in Mack. Fl. Hib. part 3. p.229. Harv. Man. p. 135. 
Wyatt, Alg. Danm. no, 226. 
Has. On the rocky bottoms of clear tide-pools, near low-water mark. 
Annual. Summer. Rather rare. Bantry Bay, Miss Hutchins. 
Larne, Dr. Drummond. Tor Abbey, Mrs. Griffiths. Belfast Bay, 
Mr. W. Thompson. Ardrossan, Major Martin. Saltcoats, Rev. D. 
Landsborough. Salcombe, Mr. Ra/fs. 
Groep. Distr. Atlantic shores of Europe ? 
Descr. Filaments as thick as horse-hair, or sometimes thicker, from six to 
twelve inches or more, long, densely tufted, but not massed together, rigid, 
the branches standing out from one another, and bristling when removed 
from the water, repeatedly but very irregularly divided. In some speci- 
mens the filaments are very much branched; in others subsimple or a few 
times forked. Branches long, flexuous, generally bending in graceful curves, 
sometimes zigzag, more or less compound, furnished with short, alternate 
or secund, scattered, erecto-patent ramuli, which are often simple, and often 
furnished on their inner faces with several secund processes, the whole 
ramulus resembling a little comb. Articulations tolerably uniform in all 
parts of the plant, “about twice as long as broad, occasionally somewhat 
longer, containing a bag of dense, granular, deep green endochrome. Joints 
slightly contracted. Apices very obtuse, and not in the least attenuated. 
Colour when growing, a beautiful glaucous green, appearing, when viewed 
in the water, almost white; when dry, varying according to age, from a 
yellow-green to a deep grass-green. 
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A very beautiful and strong-growing species, discovered about 
the year 1808, by the late Miss Hutchins, of Ballylicky, near 
Bantry, whose explorations of her neighbourhood were as unre- 
mitted as they were successful; and whose name is deservedly 
held in grateful remembrance by botanists, in all parts of the 
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