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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGM. Conferva. 
(C. myo'chrous. Brown: filaments densely entangled, branched, 
scarcely jointed; branches simple, in pairs, incurved, mostly 
leaning one way: joints imperceptible. 
Dillw. 19 —E.Bot. 1555. 
Threads half an inch long, fine as wool. 
Alpine Mouse-skin Conferva. Matting with a velvety covering, the 
stones in the alpine torrents of Snowdon and Beddgelart. Turner in E. 
Bot. and Dillw. E.) 
(5) Threads headed like a necklace. 
C. FLUViAT f iLis. Threads undivided, bristle-shaped, straight: knots 
thicker than the threads, angular. 
{Dillw. 29— E.Bot. 1763. E.)— Dill. 7. 47— Vaill. 4. 5— Pink. 193. 7, copied 
in Pet. 106. 6. 
Stems several from one common origin, three or four inches long, thickish 
below, with few or no branches; spaces between the knots, oblong. 
Smooth, dull brown purple. Dill. 
(Horse-tail Conferva. Lemaniafluviatilis. Agard. Hook. E.) Rivers. 
Near Bangor. Brewer in Dill. 39. Yorkshire, Cumberland, and Westmore¬ 
land, Huds. 597. P. Jan.—Dec. 
Var. 2. Green, contracted at the joints. 
Dill. 7. 48. 
Resembling the above, but dull green, not slippery, rather stiff, contracted 
at the joints. Dill. 
Near Ludlow, at the New Bridge. Dill. 39. Rivulet in Gam dingle. Mr. 
Griffith. 
(C. re'pens. Red: filaments creeping, crowded, capillary, even, 
branched ; joints cylindrical, twice as long as broad. 
Dillw. 18— E. Bot. 1608. 
Red Creeping Conferva. Creeping in minute, dense tufts, like velvet, 
over the round stalks of Fucvs rotundas , lumhricalis , and crispus , also on 
Conferva elongata; communicated from Yarmouth by Mr. Turner. E. 
Bot. E. Also found at Dover. Mr. Dillwyn. E.) 
(C. fcet'ida. Pale olive: filaments clustered longitudinally, branched, 
separating at the extremities ; internally beaded and granulated. 
Dillw. 104— E. Bot. 2101. 
Many flaccid, slippery filaments, springing from one root, adhere laterally 
together, separating and branching off in an irregular manner, and ter¬ 
minating acutely. In these stems longitudinal rows of the beaded fila¬ 
ments, which also run laterally into each other, may be discerned by the 
microscope. Whole plant very foetid. E. Bot. 
Fetid Pale Conferva. Salt marshes at Cley, Norfolk, growing on other 
Confervce. Mr. Hooper. E.) 
C. a'tra. Threads bristle-shaped, very much branched, brownish 
black : joints globular, almost jelly-like. Huds. 597- 
{Dillw. 11—N. Bot. 690. E ,)—Dill 7. 46. 
