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CRYPTOGAM! A. ALGiE. Conferva. 
Viviparous Conferva. In fresh water near Yarmouth. Mr. Turner. Near 
Cadoxton juxta Neath. Mr. Young. E.) 
(C. lt/brica. Green, gelatinous, much branched; branches opposite, 
crowded, the ultimate ones very sharp, mostly alternate; joints 
as broad as long. 
Bilho. 57— E. Bob 2087. 
It grows on wood or stones in floating masses, from a span to a foot long, 
slippery to the touch. E. Bot. 
Slippery Green Conferva. In a rivulet at Lounde, near Yarmouth, Mr. 
Turner and Mr. Dillwyn; the latter of whom has since found it more 
abundantly near Swansea on Sketty Burrows. E.) 
(C. fuscq-purpu'rea. Brownish purple: filaments simple, very 
slender, entangled: swelling irregularly by age ; joints three or 
four times as broad as long; pellucid at each end, at length in¬ 
ternally granulated. 
Dillio. 92— E. Bot. 2055. 
Filaments about an inch long. E. Bot. 
Brownish-purple Marine Conferva. On submarine rocks and wood, 
which it covers in patches two or three feet square, conspicuous for their 
glossy purplish brown colour. Piles in the sea at Brighthelmstone. Mr. 
W. Borrer. Limestone rocks near Dunraven Castle. Mr. Young. E.) 
(C. fibrVta. Purple: much and alternately branched; branches 
capillary; the ultimate ones crowded, very slender, pellucid, 
white; joints as broad as long, compound. 
E. Bot . 2139. 
It consists of dense purple tufts, about two inches high. It is remarkable 
for the terminations of many of the main branches being pellucid and. 
colourless, as are all the ultimate fine pencil-like divisions, which are 
crowded about the upper parts of the former. 
Fibrous-branched Conferva. Growing on various sub-marine plants 
near Forres. Mr. Brodie, inE. Bot. E.) 
(C. oliva'cea. Brownish olive; filaments branched, erect, tufted, 
entangled, somewhat rigid, branches numerous, scattered, mostly 
simple, obtuse : joints rather broader than long. 
E. Bot. 2172. 
Tufted Olive Conferva. Spreading in patches over rocks. Marine 
rocks in Papa Westra, Orkneys. Messrs. Borrer and Hooker. E. Bot. E.) 
(C. scopulq'rum. Dark green: filaments simple, short, ascending, 
curved, taper-pointed; glutinous and cohering at the base: 
joints very short. 
E. Bot. 2171. 
Grows in patches resembling coarse dark green velvet. 
(Green Plush Conferva. Oscillatoria scopulorum . Agard. Hook. On 
planks in the sea, near Bognor, Sussex. Mr. Borrer. E. Bot. E.) 
(C. tortuo'sa. Green: filaments simple, capillary, even, rather rigid, 
twisted and entangled: joints cylindrical, thrice as long as 
broad. 
