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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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remain unmolested, though almostevery author who subsequently described it agi-eed in pro-nouncing that it had no natural affinity with the type of thegenus Bangia, and was even referable to a different Series orgreat division of the Algae. Still no one, till recently, took anyactive step in the matter. Many years ago, Mr. David Mooreremarked the affinity of Bangia ? Laminaria with Asperococcus2msillus, and suggested the propriety of forming a genus fortheir reception, a suggestion which I recorded with approbationin the first edition of the Manual (p. 173), but did not thenadopt. Mr. Moore is therefore properly the originator of thepresent generic group, to which I have now merely given aname. Fig. 1. Portion of the frond of Alaria escnletda, with tufts of LitosiphonLai^iinarI-E growing on it:—the natural size. 2. Tuft of fronds. 3. Apexof a frond. 4. Base of the same. 5. Part of the middle portion of thesame :—all more or less highly niagnijied. .»( BIRMINGHAM ^^ I PUlU ccjct.
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V.H.H.iel «t^tk. r.Le-ve.iB Ser. Rhodosperme^. Fam. Ceramiea. Plate CCXCVI. CALLITHAMNION PLUMA, J^. Gen. Cha£. Frond rosy or brownish-red, filamentous; stem either opakeand cellalar, or translucent and jointed; branches jointed, one-tubed,mostly pinnate (rarely dichotomous or irregular); dissepimentshyaline. Fruit of two kinds, on distinct plants; 1, external tefra-spores scattered along the ultimate branchlets, or borne on littlepedicels; 2, roundish, or lobed, berry-like receptacles (favellce) seatedon the main branches, and containing numerous angular spores.Callithamnion (Lyngb.),—from koXXos, beaut?/, and Bafiviov, a littleshrub. Callithamnion Plunia; stems rising from creeping filaments, erect, sub-simple, or alternately branched; branches naked below, the upperhaK pinnated with short, erect, closely set, opposite ramuli; articu-lations from two to four times as long as broad; tetraspores globose,either terminating shortened pinnules, or placed on Httle stalks nearthe base

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