Ser. CHLOROSPERMEM. Fam. Confervee. 
Prats CCCLITI. 
CLADOPHORA FLEXUOSA, Grif. 
Guy. Cuan. Filaments green, attached, uniform, branched, composed of 
a single series of cells or articulations. /ruvit, aggregated granules 
or zoospores, contained in the articulations, having, at some period, 
a proper ciliary motion. CrapopHora (Avtz.),—from xhados, a branch, 
and opew, to dear. 
Crapopnora flexuosa; filaments capillary, flexuous or angularly bent, 
pale green, much branched, the branches of unequal length and 
(comparatively) but little divided, set with curved secondary or ter- 
tiary branches, which are pectinated with secund, short, simple, 
spreading ramuli ; articulations of the branches thrice or four times, 
of the ramuli twice as long as broad. 
CiapopHora flexuosa, Griff. ! in Wyatt, Alg. Danm. no. 227. Harv. Man. 
ed. 2. p. 202 (in part ; the synonyms of Dillwyn and Eng. Bot., there quoted, 
being doubtful.) 
CiapopHora sirocladia, 8 gracilis, Kiitz. Sp. Aly. p. 392. 
Has. In rock-pools, between tide-marks, attached to other Alge. Tor- 
quay, Mrs. Griffiths. (Other recorded stations require re-examina- 
tion and verification.) 
Guoer. Distr. (Doubtful.) 
Descr. Filaments capillary, three to six inches long, tufted, much branched, but 
not so densely bushy as several allied species, the principal branches angu- 
larly bent, and the secondary and tertiary branches, which are long and of 
unequal lengths, bent from side to side in an undulating manner. From 
the projecting angles of the bent branches, at either side, spring other 
lesser laterals, which are usually simple, and either naked, or more com- 
monly pectinated along one side with several short ramuli, each of four or 
five articulations. These ramuli on some specimens are found lengthening 
out into branches, and again bearing ramuli. All the divisions are curved. 
The articulations in the stem are from three to four times as long as broad, 
not contracted at the jomts; those of the ramuli are gradually shorter, and 
very little contracted, expanding nearly to their full shape when moistened 
after having been dried. The colour is a pleasant green, tolerably retained 
in drying. The substance is membranaceous, and the plant adheres to 
paper. 
nnn 
Not bemg in possession of any authentic specimen of the 
Conferva flecuosa of Dillwyn, on which the present species is 
supposed to be founded ; and, also, having good reason to doubt 
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