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Animate flowers—sea-nettles, sea anemones, plumularia, campanularia, hydropores, confervae, oscillatoria, bryozoa—people the great waters.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas

Are they of the class of the ulvae, confervae, or fuci? to be welcomed as old acquaintance, or, hitherto unnoticed, to be added to the catalogue of Nature’s endless stores?

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

In almost every long voyage some account is given of these confervae.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles

These are minute cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles