The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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Mougeutia.] ALG.E CONTERVOIDEJE, 359
44. C. drcta, Dillw. (close green Conferva); filaments elongated
forming silky tufts of a full ieruginose-green colour much
branched, branches erecto- patent crowded, ramuli erect appressed
opposite or alternate, lower articulations as long, upper
much longer than broad. Dilltv. Conf. t. E.— E. Bot. t. 2098.
Ag.Syst. Alg.p. 118.— C. Vaucheriaformis, Ag. Syst. Alg.p. 118
On various other Algcc. Bantry, Miss Hutchins. Appin, Captain
Carmichael.— Filaments 3— 6 inches long, forming fine tufts, very glossy,
much branched, stoloniferous. The joints are subject to much variation
in length ; and I have sometimes feared that the two preceding species,
as well as C. tsruginosa, are merely varieties of the present.—They are
all equally remarkable for a bright glossy-green colour, a flaccid texture
and a propensity to cast out, from their lower part, long, flexuose, creep-
ing fibres or stolones.
45. C. aeruginosa, Huds. (branching Verdigris Conferva);