C O N F E R V A corallina.
Coralline Red Conferva.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algee.
G en . Char. Seeds produced within the substance of
the capillary or jointed frond, or in closed tubercles
united with it.
Spec. Char. Crimson, much branched. Joints swelling
upwards, thrice as long as broad; the fertile ones
fringed at the summit with short, incurved, simple
filaments, enfolding numerous clustered seeds, imbedded
in mucus.
Syn. Conferva corallina. Linn. Syst. Feg. ed. 14. 973.
W ith. 136. Hull. 3 3 3 . Lighrf. 9 8 8 . Roth.
C atal. v. 3. 2 2 5 .
C. corallinoides. Linn. Sp. PL 1 6 3 6 . Huds. 5 9 8 .
C. geniculata. E llis in P h il. Trans, v. 5 7 .4 2 5 . t. 18.
f . f . P .
C. marina gelatinosa, corallinas instar geniculata cras-
sior. D ill. Muse. 3 3 . t. 6. f . 36.
Corallina^ confervoides gelatinosa alba, geniculis eras-
siusculis pellucidis. D ill, in R aii Syn. 34.
GATHERED on Brighthelmston beach in July by Mr. W.
Borrer.
The fresh plant is of a beautiful crimson, but turns whitish,
or greenish brown, in drying. Root fibrous. Frond 2 or 3
inches high, repeatedly hut irregularly branched* much thicker
than the last, being about half a line in diameter. Joints
about thrice as long as broad, almost pearshaped j the fertile
ones either fringed all round their summits with short, unequal,
indexed, unjointed filaments, or crowned laterally with
a tuft of such filaments : in either case the frond is continued
beyond them, repeatedly fructifying in the same manner.
Mr. Borrer has generally, not always, found the lateral fruit
on a separate plant from such as surrounds the stem. The
copious deep-crimson seeds, in branched clusters imbedded
in jelly, are lodged within the circle of short filaments, and
turp green when dried. The jelly is thought by Mr. Borrer
to be more or less perceptible, according as the seeds are more
or less advanced. jL’o) .i.i8o].PiibKsh'd Tryja t Sowerby London -