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congeners but one, by the tenuity and lubricity of the filament,
in conjunction with the great length of the cells. The only
species with which it can be confounded is C.Budolphiana, but the
ramification is so different in that plant, that, notwithstanding a
near agreement in the length of the articulations and the general
aspect of the tufts, there can be little difficulty in distinguishing
one from the other.
As yet I have only seen the specimens collected by Miss Ball,
so long ago as 1843. As I have been in no haste to publish
it as a novelty, I hope it may stand permanently as a good
species.
Pig. 1. Cladophoea B alliana :—the natural size. 3. Portiou of a filament:
—magnijkd. 3. Branchlet, and 4, part of the same :— less and more highly
magnified.
