The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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VlkalopJiora.] ALG*: GLOIOCLADEiE. 389
In rivulets.— But for its definite gelatine, this species would not differ
from Conferva.
88. Ch^etophora. Ag. Chaetophora.
Frond gelatinous, globose, or lobed, rarely plane and crustaceous,
composed of numerous filaments aggregated together and
issuing from a common base. Filaments articulated, branched;
articulations of the brandies subhyaline, those of the ramuli
coloured.—Name; yjurri, a bristle, and fogsw, to bear; the ramuli
are, in some stage of growth, tipped with long setaceous
points or bristles.
1. In fresh-water. (Chaetophorae genuinse.)
1. C endivicefolia, Ag. (branching Chcetophora) ; frond
elongated
branched.
filiform somewhat
Ag. Syst. Alg. p.
compressed subdichotomously
28.— Ulva incrassata, E. Bot.
t. 967.
In lakes and streams, frequent.—A beautiful object under the microscope,
and interesting, as it connects this genus with Draparnaldia.
2. C. tuberculosa, Hook, (tubercular Chcctophora) ; frond at
first globose and firm afterwards much lobed fragile and hollow,
filaments very slender flexuose hyaline, ramuli coloured palma-
to-fasciculate.
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culosa, Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 27.
t. 2366.
In boggy pools.
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Hook. Scot. II. p. 76.— C. pisiformis, ;
3. tuber-
Bivularia tuberculosa, E. Bot.
3. C. elegans, Ag. (elegant Chaetophora); " frond subglobose
gelatinous solid green, filaments subdichotomous, ramuli fasti-
giate attenuate the apices produced beyond the gelatine."
('arm.—Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 27.
In stagnant pools.
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4. C. pisiformis, Ag. (small globose Cha-tnphom); « frond
aubglobose fleshy green, filaments Bubdichotomona obtuse, aporidia
globOM axillary." ( 'arm.—Ag. Syst. A \lg. />. '27. Bt rh. . llg.
1.— C.