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Title: Phycologia Britannica, or, A history of British sea-weeds : containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866 Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866. History of British sea-weeds
Subjects: Marine algae
Publisher: London : Reeve Brothers
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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W. H.H.delet lifli a B-tB-mvp Ser. Rhodosperme^-.. Fam. Rhodomelea. Plate CCLXXXIV. POLYSIPHONIA BYSSOIDES, Grev. Gen. Char. Frond filamentous, partially or generally articulate; jointslongitudinally striate, composed of numerous radiating cells or tubes,disposed round a central cavity. Fructification twofold, on differentindividuals; 1, ovate capsules (ceramidia), furnished with a terminalpore and containing a tuft of pear-shaped spores; 2, tetraspores, im-bedded in swollen branchlets. Polysiphonia (Grev.),—from irokvs,many, and a-icfxov, a tide. PoLYSiPHONiA hi/ssoides; stems rigid, setaceous, cartilaginous, distichouslybranched, decoraposito-))innate; branches patent, more or less denselyclothed with short, slender, dichotomous, single-tubed, byssoid ra-melli; articulations of the stem variable in length, 3-4-striate. PoLYsiPHONiA byssoides, Grev. Ft. Edin. p. 309. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl.vol. ii. p. 334. Hai-v. Man. ed. 2. p. 92. Wyatt, Alg. Damn. No. 85.Harv. in Mack. Fl. Hib. pa
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