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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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Ser. EuoDosPERME.E. Fara. Ceramiea. Plate CCCXIV. CALLITHAMNION DAVIESII, Lyngb. Gen. Char. Frond rosy or brownish-red, filamentous; stem either opakeand cellular, or translucent and jointed; branches jointed, one-tubed,mostly pinnate (rarely dichotomous or irregular); dissepiments hya-line. Fruit of two kinds, on distinct plants : 1, external tetraspores,scattered along the ultimate branchlets, or borne on little pedicels;2, roundish or lobed, berry-like receptacles (favella) seated on themain branches, and containing numerous angular spores. Calli-THAMXION (Lynglj),—from raXXos, beanh/, and Oafiviov, a little shrub. Callithamnion Daviesii; rose-red, minute, tufted, much branched;branches curved, scattered, patent; ramuli of several cells, fascicled,or crowded toward the axils of the secondary branches; tetrasporespedicellate, borne on the axillary ramuli. Callithamnion Daviesii, Lyiujh. Hijd. Ban. p. 129. t. 41. Ag. Sp. Alg. vol.ii. p. 186. Harv. hi Hook. Brit. Fl. vol. ii. p. 348
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