Plate LXI. 
Fig. 284. CODIUM BUESA. 
Colour. Dark green. 
Substance. Stiffly and densely spongy. 
Character of Frond. An irregularly round lump ; composed of interwoven threads {filaments)^ 
densely matted together ; hollow when old ; several, of different ages and sizes, 
growing together in groups. 
Measurement. From' 1 to 8 inches in diameter. 
Fructification. Little egg-shaped sacs {sporangia)^ containing a dark-green substance, which 
changes at maturity into seeds {zoospores ; so called from having at one period a 
motion as if endowed with animal life) ; attached to the outer threads {filaments') of 
which the frond is composed. 
Habitat. South coast of England. Jersey. Cornwall. Torquay. Not uncommon at Brighton. 
Very rare generally. 
Fig. 285. CODIUM TOMENTOSUM. 
Colour. Dark green. 
Substance. Soft ; densely spongy. 
Character of Frond. Cylindrical, or somewhat compressed, smooth stem and branches, often 
thicker than a swan’s quill throughout ; more or less repeatedly but irregularly 
forked ; sometimes beset with short side-branches. 
Measurement. From 3 to 12 inches long. 
Fructification. Little egg-shaped sacs {sporangia)^ containing a dark-green substance, which 
changes at maturity into minute seeds {zoospores; so called from having at one 
period a motion as if endowed with animal life) ; attached to the outer threads 
{filaments) of which the frond is composed. 
Habitat. South and west coasts of Great Britain chiefly. Devonshire. Scilly. Miltown 
Malhay, &c. 
Some specimens of this plant are much oftener divided and re-hranched than others, and 
form a circle when laid out. For other Codiims, see next Plate. 
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