t 2376 ]
C O N F E R V A inflata.
Inflated Combined Conferva.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algce.
Gen. Char. Seeds produced within the substance of
the capillary or jointed frond, or inclosed tubercles
united with it.
Spec. Char. Green. Filaments unbranched. Joints
twice as long as broad, becoming swollen, and
laterally conjugated. Grains in simple spiral
lines.
Syn. Conjugata inflata. Voucher Conf. 6 8 . t. 5. ƒ . 3.
T o correct our error at y. 24. p. 1670, pointed out by Mr.
W . Borrer, we now publish wliat seems really to be the Con-
jugata inflata of Vaucher, found by our friend in boggy pools
on Henfield Common, Sussex, last August. The species in
f. 1670 excited some doubt, having never been found laterally
conjugated, even in an advanced state, and we are now convinced
of its belonging to a different tribe.
The present floats in dense light-green masses, and its filaments
are very slender, simple, composed of joints at first
cjlindrical, and about twice as long as broad, or rather more,
in each of which is a spiral green line. Afterwards the joints
become tumid or elliptical, and unite by lateral tubes with
those of neighbouring filaments, while the green matter within
forms a ball, or rather constitutes an oval seed, according to
Vaucher, much as in C. nitida, t. 2337.
To tab. 1670 may now be applied the name of
C O N F E R V A tumidula.
Tumid-jointed Conferva.
The synonym, of course, must be erased.