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C O N F E R V A repens.
R ed Creeping Conferva,
CRYPTOGAMIA Alga*.
Gen. Char. Seeds produced in round, solitary, closed
tubercles, projecting from the frond, but united
with it.
Spec. Char. Red. Filaments creeping, crowded, capillary,
even, branched. Joints cylindrical, twice
as long as they are broad.
Syn. Conferva repens. Dillwyn. Conf. t. 18.
C o m m u n ic a t e d from Yarmouth by Mr. Turner. It is
said by Mr. Dillwyn, who alone, as far as we know, has
described it, to be not unfrequent in the autumnal months,
growing on Fucus rotundus, lumlricalis, and crispus, as well as
on Conferva elongata.
The colour is a more or less vivid and beautiful red. The
fronds creep in minute, dense tufts, like velvet or plush, over
the round stalks of the abovementioned sea-weeds, adhering
by short roots or fibres, and are branched j the branches simple
or compound, capillary, obtuse, nearly of equal thickness
throughout, their joints cylindrical, and scarcely swelling in
any part, full twice as long as they are broad, the interstices
not contracted, but visible by means of their colourless transparency.
The fructification has not been observed.
We entirely omit the synonym of Dillenius, ta l. 4 , fig. 21,
on the authority of Mr. Turner, Trans, of Linn. Soc. v. 7. 106.