the identity of the piant here figured with that figured by
Diiiwyn, I think it best to abstain quoting any synonym or
habitat which I have not recently verified. My figure and
description therefore have reference alone to the specimens published
by Mrs. Griifiths in Wyatt’s ‘ Algse Danmonienses,’ and
to such as agree with them in character. I am not very sanguine
of the validity of this species, and, notwithstanding some
differences in minor characters, would place it near C. glaucescens,
to which it is closely related. The general aspect is not unlike
that species, and the articulations are of about the same length ;
but here the stem and branches are more flexuous, the ramuli
shorter in proportion, and the dissepiments are less contracted. ‘
I am not disposed to place much reliance on any of these characters.
Meanwhile, as the plant has been published in a work of such
celebrity as the ‘ Algæ Danmonienses,’ it is right that it should
liave a place in our volumes.
Fig. 1. Cladophoea flexuosa ;—the natural size. 2. Portion of a filament:—
3 Small portion of the same:—morel"-'''’............