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CRYPTOGAMIA. ALGAL Conferva. 
this plant resemble orange-coloured cloth. Branches divided into joints 
by pellucid dissepiments. Dillw. 
Orange Cloth-lire Conferva. Byssus anrea. Linn. Huds. With, to Ed. 
7. C. aurea. Dillw. Ceramium aureum. Agard. Hook. On the sides 
of caverns. On the walls of Lilleshall Abbey, Salop. Near Pont Nedd 
Vechan, Glamorganshire. Woods in Dillw. On rocks in Cawsey Wood, 
and on limestone rocks near Sunderland. Mr. Winch. E.) 
(C. flac'cida. Rusty olive; filaments unbranched, tapering, clus¬ 
tered, short, flaccid: upper joints as long as broad; lower half 
as long. 
E. Bot. 2310. 
The plant to which this Conferva is attached, seems clothed with a soft 
tufted shaggy coat, each tuft scarcely an inch long, consisting of nume¬ 
rous, olive-brown, flexible, very slender filaments, gently tapering from 
their base to fine points. 
Rusty Flaccid Conferva. On the Devonshire coast, growing on Fucus 
fibrosus. Miss Hill. Shoreham harbour, on F. vesiculosus. Mr. W. 
Borrer. E. Bot. E.) 
(C. lu'cens. Bright shining green: filaments unbranched, slender, 
slippery; joints even, rather broader than long. E. Bot. 
Dillw . 47—2?. Bot. 1655. 
Threads two or three inches long, extremely fine. 
Shining River Conferva. Rapid streams near Lewes. Mr. Borrer. 
Rapid rivulets of Glamorganshire. Mr. Dillwyn. E.) 
C. fucoi'des. Very much branched; lesser branches many cleft, the 
lowermost fasciculated, bearing fruit. Huds. 
( E. Bot. 1743— Dillw. 75. E.) 
Threads a foot long, smooth, of a blackish reddish hue. Branches alternate. 
Little branches somewhat forked. Fructifications terminating, radiated, 
small. Huds. n. 42. 
(Brown Fucus-like Conferva. C.nigrescens. E. Bot. 1717? Hutchinsia 
violacea. Agard. H.fucoides. Hook. E.) Rocks, stones, and on Fuci in 
the sea. X\ Jan.—Dec. 
C. villo'sa. Joints woolly: branches mostly undivided, distant. Huds. 
(Greenish yellow. 
Dillw. 37— E. Bot. 546. E.) 
Threads six inches long, green, semi-transparent. Branches long, bristle¬ 
shaped ; joints woolly, or beset with very short fine little branches in 
whirls. Huds. 
(Woolly-jointed Conferva. Stones and rocks in the sea, Cornwall, 
but rather rare. At Yarmouth. Mr. Turner. Mumbles, near Swansea. 
Dillwyn. E.) A. May—Sept. 
(C. verruco'sa. Branches irregularly scattered and subdivided, scarcely 
jointed, studded with rough warts. 
Turn. Hist. 235— E. Bot. 1688. 
Frond three or four inches high, pale reddish brown. The slightly promi¬ 
nent scattered warts rough with little projecting bristles. E. Bot. The 
genus to which this plant may be most properly referred seems as yet 
somewhat doubtful. 
