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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.leletlitk. F.B-ee-ve.imT. Ser. MELANOsPERMEyE. Tam. Chordariece. Plate CCCXVIII. MESOGLOIA GRIFFITHSIANA, Grcv. UEN. Char. Frond filiform, much branched, gelatinous; the axis com-posed of longitudinal, subsimplc, interlacing fibres, invested withgelatine; the periphery formed of radiating, dichotomous, colouredfilaments. Fructification: ovate or elliptical, olivaceous spores, at-tached to the filaments of the periphery. Mesogloia (Ag.),—fromfievos, the middle, and yXoio?, viscid; from the gelatinous axis. Mesogloia Griffithsiana; frond slender, equal throughout; branchesalternate or irregular, filiform, long, simple, nearly bare of ramuh. Mesogloia Griffithsiana, G^re?;. J/aS. 7foo^. 5r. 17. vol. ii. p. 387. Wyatt,Alg. Damn. no. 48. Harv. Man. ed. 3. p. 47. Kiitz. Sp. Alg. p. 545. Hab. In rock-pools between tide-marks, rare. Annual. Summer.Livermead, Torbay, Mrs. Griffiths. Sidmouth, Miss Cutler. Round-stone, Mr. MCalla. Geogr. Distr. Atlantic shores of Europe. Descr. Root a s
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