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C O N FER V A nutamuloides.
Money-wort Conferva.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algce.
Gen. Char. Seeds produced within the substance o f
the capillary or jointed frond, orin closed tubercles
united with it.
Spec. Char. Simple, slender, brittle, palish brown.
Joints rather broader than long, red in the centre,
combined in pairs.
Stn. Conferva nummuloides. Dillw. Syn. 4 5 . n . 2 5 .
t. B.
C tATHERED by Mr. Borrer, on whom we rely for the
name, in March 1811, among Conferva flocculosa, adhering
to various others of the same genus, in Shoreham harbour,
Sussex. Mr. SoWerby has also received the same, amongst
numerous minute and imperfect Confervce, from Miss Bid-
dulph. Mr. Dillwyn found his plant in the river Lea.
The filaments are short, tortuous, and cylindrical, of a
brittle nature. Their colour a dirty white, except that in the
centre of each joint is a round assemblage of seeds, of a yellowish,
brownish, or red colour. The latter is the case in
our specimens, which seem to be more perfect than Mr. Dill-
wyn’s, showing moreover that the joints are combined in
pairs.