The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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Illesngloia.] ALG/E GLOIOCLADF;E. 385
1. L. minutissimus, Ag. (minute Leptomitus); filaments slightly
branched very minute hyaline, branches scattered forked obtuse,
joints obsolete, articulations variable Ag. Syst. Alg.
p. 47. Conferva minutissima, Dillw. Conf. Suppl. t. F.
On Conferva, in the se.:, Dillwyn.— I admit this, merely to state my
belief that it is nothing more than the li
Ji6ri//cc" so
ting the apices of the filaments of the Polysiphonioe.
often found beset-
2. L. Idcteus, Ag. (white Leptomitus); " filaments branched
clustered in a shapeless gelatinous mass dirty-white, brandies
from each dissepiment, articulations very long-." Ag. Syst.
Aly.p. 48.— Conferva lactea, Dillw. Conf. t. 79.
In ditches and rivulets; growing on stones, wood, &c. Dillayn.
3. L. clavdtus, Ag. (club-shaped Leptomitus); " filaments simple
hyaline, apex clavate." Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 49.— Vaucheria
aquatica, Lyngb. Hydroph. Dan. t. 22.
On fishes and dead flies, Agard/i.—The habitat of this production
proves that it is no Alga.
Div. III. GLOIOCLADE^. 1
Plants consisting of numerous globules, or filaments invested with
a definite gelatine andforming globose or filiform fronds.
Tribe XIX. Batrachosperme.s:.
Plants filiform or globose, composed of articulated, branched filaments,
invested with gelatine. Fructification, sofar as it is known,
capsules on the ultimate ramuli.—Marine or infresh-water.
85. Mesogloia. Ag. Mesogloia.
Frond filiform, solid (ve ry rarely tubular); the axia [gelatinous
or somewhat fibrous; the periphery formed of radiating
articulated coloured supdichotomous filaments. Fructification;
globules of seeds, seated in the dichotomies of the ultimate ramuli,
composing the periphery.— Name; fmfog. (hi middle, and
y'/.o/og, viscid, from the gelatinous a\U.
I . Purple
or rose-red.
1. M. multifidat Ag. (dicholomom MnogloiaU frond diohoto-
Ag. Syst. Alg. j>. MK— ( 7,
mous elastic, the axils rounded.
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j'hoKi miilh/ido. Ag.— B6okm Sen/.
On sheila and stones, near low«watef mark, not rare. Appin, i
Carmichael. Rfalbayand Killiney, Ireland, W, II. Harvey*— .1— 6 inches
long, l — - lines in diameter, gelatinoso-cartilaginous, very elastic,
sparingly dichotomouSj the axils remarkably rounded j colour a thill
puiplisn-brown.
•_\ M. Hudson!. Ag*. tHudson*i J /< i ogloia ) ; frond much
i My
W, ll. Harvey,
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