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Arit'.ve . imi.-
8er. C h lo e o sp e em b /e . Fam . Covfenem.
P l a t e CXXIV.
CLADOPHORA HUTCHINSIiE, Haw.
G e n . C h a e . Filaments green, jo in ted , a tta ch ed , uniform, b ran ch ed . F m it
aggreg ated g ran u le s or zoospores, contained in th e jo in ts , having, at
some period, a p ro p e r ciliary motion. C la d o p h o e a {Kiitz.),-— from
/tXaSos, a branch, an d fiopem, to bear.
C la d o p h o e a H u tc h in s ia ; filaments setaceous, of equal diameter tliroughout,
rigid, crisp, glaucous-green, fiexuons, tufted, bristling; ramuli ereoto-
patent, simple or furnished along the inner face with short processes
of one or two articulations; apices very obtuse; articulations twice or
thrice ?,s long as broad, the joints contracted.
CoNPEEVA Hutchinsim, Billvi. Conf. 1 .109. Harv. in Hook. Br. FI. vol. ii.
p. 357. Harv. in Mack. FI. Rib. part 3. p. 339. Harv. Jf«». p. 135.
Wyatt, Alg. Damn. no. 336.
H a b . On the rocky bottoms of clear tide-pools, near low-water mark.
Annual. Summer. Rather rare. Bantry Bay, Miss Hutchins.
Larne, Dr. Drummond. Tor Abbey, Mrs. Griffiths. Belfast Bay,
Mr. W. Thompson. Ardrossan, Major Martin. Saltcoats, Rev. D.
landsborough. Salcombe, Mr. R o lfs.
Geoge. Dis t e . Atlantic shores of Europe ?
Desck. Filaments as thick as horse-hair, or sometimes thicker, from six to
twelve inches or more, long, densely tufted, but not massed together, rigid,
the branches standing out from one another, and bristling when removed
from the water, repeatedly hut very irregularly divided. In some specimens
the filaments are very much branched; in others subsimple or a few
times forked. Branches long, flexuous, generally bending in graceful curves,
sometimes zigzag, more or less compound, furnished with short, alternate
or secund, scattered, erecto-patent ramuli, which are often simple, and often
furnished on their inner faces with several secund processes, the whole
ramulus resembling a little comb. Articulations tolerably uniform in all
parts of the plant, about twice as long as broad, occasionally somewhat
longer, containing a bag of dense, gramdar, deep green endochrome. Joints
slightly contracted. Apices very obtuse, and not iu the least attenuated.
Colour when growing, a beautiful glaucous green, appearing, when viewed
in the water, almost white; when diy, varying according to age, from a
yellow-green to a deep grass-green.
A very beautiful and strong-growing species, discovered about
the year 1808, by the late Miss Hutchins, of Ballylicky, near
Bantry, whose explorations of her neighbourhood were as unremitted
as they were successful; and whose name is deservedly
held in grateful remembrance by botanists, in all parts of the
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