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Excerpt from British Confervae, or Colored Figures and Descriptions of the British Plants Referred by Botanists to the Genus Conferva
TH E prerent very imperfect Rate of our knowledge of Confervae, will, I hope, be accepted as fu?icient apology for not prefacing my firit Fafciculus with any general remarks on that g'enu's. Convinced of this deficiency, I offer the prefent work as little more than a fet of drawings, whereby the fpecies of this intricate tribe may be, in fome meafure, fixed; and which may at leal'c ferve as materials for the future labours of fome more able Botanifis. I {hall'add to each plate the de fcription of the plant it is intended to reprefent, pointing out at the fame time whatever has (truck me as molt remarkable in its conformation or phyfiology. The greater part of the more minute fpecies refemble each other (0 much in their natural i'tate, that the microfcope alone can enable us to diftinguifh them, and therefore I have given only magnified fketches; except of thofe, in which the firueture or ramification is fu?iciently fingular to point them out, at firit fight.
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