bo [ 1928 ]
CONFERVA striatula.
Disjointed Streaked Coitferva.
ClfYPTOGAMIA Algce.
G en. Char. Seeds produced within the substance of
the capillary or jointed frond, or in closed tubercles
united with it.
Spec. Char. Pale green. Filaments capillary, simple,
compressed. Joints quadrangular, rather broader
than long, in pairs, transversely and uninterruptedly
striated; at length separating at one edge and divaricated.
O b s e r v e d growing on Fuel and Conferees at Cromer by
Mr. W. J . Hooker in April 1808.
The filaments are from one to two lines in height, pale
green, whitish when dry, simple, straight, erect, as slender
as the finest hair, compressed but not quite flat. Joints
rather broader than long, but combined in pairs, each pair,
as it appears to us, separating at opposite corners, and every
joint streaked transversely with parallel lines, without the
longitudinal pellucid line seen in C.fiocculosa, t. 1 7 6 1 .
The same difficulties attend this production, with respect
to its vegetable or animal nature, that we have noticed in
C. lamiaformis, t. 1883. They seem intermediate links between
both kingdoms, and are the more worthy of notice as
their allies the Corallines have excited so much attention, and
were so long misunderstood. Their resemblance to the Tcenia
is striking. Were it not for the separation of their joints,
they might be suspected to be young Sertularice; yet the
analogy of C. flocculosa would ever discountenance such a
supposition.