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CRYPTOGAMTA Algos.
Gen. Char. Seeds produced within the substance of
the capillary or jointed frond, or in closed tubercles
united with it.
Spec. Char. Glaucous green. Filaments unbranched,
shortish, clustered, taper-pointed. Joints four
times as broad as loneOr.
Syn. Conferva confervicola. Dillw. Syn. 3 9 . Conf.
t. 8 , and t. A.
C. marina parasitica, tenuissima et brevissima, glauca.
D ill. Muse. 5 5 2 . t. 85 . f . 2 1 .
COMMON in the sea, not only upon other larger Conferva,
but on the slender cylindrical Fuel, composing numerous little
scattered tufts, of a dullish glaucous green. These consist of many
spreading simple filaments, not above one-eighth of an inch long,
and very slender, tapering to an acute point. The joints, which,
’ as Mr. W. Borrer remarks, are not represented, nor well described,
by Dillwyn, are extremely copious and regular, each
joint full four times as broad as long. Besides these, irregular
bands are seen here and there, as in other species, whose nature is
not well explained. The supposed fruit, figured in Mr. Dillwyn’s
t. A, where the joints are truly represented, was found and delineated
by Mr. Hooker. This is a roundish, sessile, dark-olive
tubercle, with a transverse partition, that is, like the coat, pellucid.