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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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W.H.H Relet Tift.. R.B. fcR.imp. Sor. Ehodospeume^. >ani. Ceramiecp, Plate CCLXXVI. CERAMIUM DECURRENS, Mtz. Gen. Char. Frond filiform, one-tubed, articulated; the dissepimentscoated Avitli a stratum of coloured cellules, which sometimes extendover the surface of the articulation. Fructification of two kinds, ondistinct individuals : 1, tetraspores either immersed in the rarauli ormore or less external; 2, sessile, roundish receptacles (favella) havinga pellucid hmbus, containing minute, angular spores, and subtendedby one or more short, involucral ramuli. Ceramium (Roth),—fromKcpa^of, a pitcher; but the fruit is not pitcher-shaped. Ceramium decurrens; frond robust, gradually attenuated upwards, dicho-tomous, with few lateral branclilets, the apices hooked inwards ; arti-culations partially coated with coloured cellules, which extend fromthe dissepiment at each end, but leave a colourless, pellucid space intlie centre of the articulation; lowermost articulations twice as longas b
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