THE amateur’s SYNORSIS. 
XXXV 
contracted at intervals. 
Compressed ; distantly branched ; tips blunt ; contractions 
long ......... 
Genus . 
Enteromorpha 
Fam - 
XXI 
jointed. 
Slender ; tufted ; much and variously branched and re- 
branched ......*. 
Cladophora 
XXII 
„ pale green ; in fleeces on rocks ; not branched, but 
throwing out occasional fibres ..... 
Ehizoclonium 
XXII 
Slender, bright-green tufts ; gelatinous ; unbranched 
Hormotrichum 
XXII 
„ of various shades of green ; in tufts ; never gela- 
tinous ; unbranched ...... 
Conferva 
XXII 
Eose-red; minute; parasitic; fringing; joints containing 
colour-cells ........ 
Goniotrichum 
XXI 
Pale-green ; minute ; parasitic on grasses, &c. ; forming a 
convex hairy dot ....... 
OCHLOCH^TE 
XXII 
FILMS, or PATCHES. 
Small, roundish, gelatinous, floating ; composed of branched 
threads ......... 
Monormia 
XXIV 
Vivid or deep green, spreading over decaying plants on . 
mud, or floating ....... 
SPHiEROZYGA 
XXIV 
Verdigris green, spreading over decaying plants or on sticks 
Spirulina 
XXIII 
A dark glazy crust upon rocks ; formed of closely- 
packed radiating threads ...... 
SCHIZOSIPHON 
XXIII 
Dark green ; velvetty ; spreading irregularly upon rocks ; 
sometimes throwing up minute, cylindrical frondlets . 
CODIUM 
XX 
IRREGULAR or DEFINED LUMPS. 
Dark green ; spongy ; hollow ; more or less globular 
CODIUM 
XX 
Globular, or convex; spreading like little balls on rocks 
and plants ........ 
Eivularia 
XXIII 
