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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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Ilate CCLIIIV.
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W.H.H.deletlith. R B-.v :\ Ser. EHODOSPERMEiE. Fam. Ceramiea. Plate CCLXXIV. CALLITHAMNION ARBUSCULA, Lpi^h. Gen. Chak. 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 hyaline.Fruit of two kinds, on distinct plants; 1, external tetraspores, scat-tered along the ultimate branclilets, or borne on Httle pedicels; 2,roundish or lobed, berry-like receptacles (favellm) seated on the mainbranches, and containing numerous angular spores. Callithamnion(Li/ngb.), from koKKos, heav.ti/, and BayLvwv, a little shrub. Calltthamnion arbuscula; stems naked below, inarticulate, robust, carti-laginous, the main divisions set with shorter branches, which aredensely clothed on aU sides with minute, imbricated, pinnated ramuli(plumules); ultimate pinnules simple or forked, recurved, acute,articulated, the articulations twice as long as broad; tetraspores glo-bose,
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