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P l a t e CXVIL
CRUORIA PELLITA, Fries.
Gen. C h au . Frond gelatinoso-ooriaceous, a skin on
rocks, composed of vertical, tufted, simple, jointed filaments, set m a
; : i a t i o s e L t r i x ; one of th e joints of each filament - g e r “
rest. Fructification, tetraspores lying a t th e base of
CuuouiA (i!r i» 8 ),- f rom crmr. Hood; because th e plant looks like
blood-stain on the rock.
i. p. 33. Aresch. Q w aR ix pellita.
CuuoBiA peUita, Fries, FI. Scan. p. 316. Endl. 3rd .
in Linn. vol. 17- p- 267- j, , m Tir Àln
part 3. p. 233. Barv. Man. p. 123. FI. Lan. t. 1728.
CnÆionEMA peUita, S f o . t o . p. 326.
M. I Berkeley. West of Ireland, very abundant, W.H.H. Mounts
Bay and Ilfracombe, U r . Balfs. Jersey, Miss Turner.
Geoge. DISÏU. Atlantic coasts ot Europe, from Norway to France. Foeroe
“r V f n l l i ^ r o t h and breadth. Near the centre of every fflament a
l t “U X i e occuS, thrice the diameter of the rest, but
â S £ jir# S il5 Ïlî
olive ; of the filaments, under the glass, a pale or puiphsh-red.
Where a considerable surface of naked and smooth rock is
exposed between tide marks, it may commonly be observed to
be covered here and therewith skin-like patches of a dull red