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Identifier: phycologiabritan03har (find matches)
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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ill W.B.H.if Scr. RHODOSPERMEiE. f am. Ceramiece. CALLITHAMNION CORYMBOSUM, J^. Plate CCLXXII. GrEN. Char. Frond rosy or browuish-red, filamentous; stem either opakeand cellular, or translucent and jointed; branches jointed, one-tubed,mostly pinnate (rarely dichotomous or irregular); dissepiments hyaline.Fruit of two kinds, on distinct plants: 1, external tetraspores scat-tered along the ultimate branchlets, or borne on little pedicels; 2,roundish or lobcd, berry-like receptacles (favelloR), seated on the mauibranches, and containing numerous angular spores. Callitiiamnion(Lyngb.),—from KaWos, beauty, and Banviov, a little shrub. !!)allithamnion corymbosum; frond setaceous at the base, capillary andbyssoid above, flaccid, gelatinous, excessively branched; secondarybranches alternate, repeatedly dichotomous, subflabelliform, level-topped; ramuli many times forked, with patent axils; apices obtuse;articulations of the branches from eight to ten times as long asbroad; tetraspores soHta
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