Identifier: phycologiaaustra02harv (find matches)
Title: Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ... and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae ..
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866
Subjects: Algae
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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d- or brownish-purplecolour of the frond. Some (hke G. radula), have broad, simpleleaves, resembhng those of an Iridaa; others have flabelliformfronds like those of a Chondrus or Gymnogongrus; others areshrubby and irregularly branched, like a Gracilaria; and others,again, in the regularly pinnated and distichous ramification, Hkeour G. pimiata, remind us of the Laurencice. The present isone of the finest of the Australian kinds, and would require afolio plate to do it full justice. It varies considerably, and Ishall not be surprised if future observations, made on the shoresof Australia, should compel the union of G. livida and someothers with it. Fig. 1. GiGARTiNA PiNNATA, a branch,—of the natural size. 3. Fertile branchletof a larger frond,—natural size. 3. A ramulus, with conceptacle. 4.Section through conceptacle, showing structure of frond and favellidium.5. Spores. 6. Portion of the cortical layer and medullary network,—thelatter figures variously magnified. Plat€. LXn.
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Ser. MELANOSPERMEiE, Fam. SporochnacecB. Plate LXIX. BELLOTIA ERIOPHORUM, iiaw. Gen. Char. Frond filiform, solid, umbellately branched; the branchescrowned with a tuft of penicillate filaments. Receptacle solitary ineach branch, cylindrical, surrounding the middle portion of the branch,composed of simple, vertical, densely crowded paranemata. Sporeson the sides of the paranemata, oblong, transversely striate.—Bello-TiA (Harv.), in memory of Lieut. Bellot, of the French Navy, whovolunteered his services in one of the Eranklin searching Voyages,and perished in the Polar Sea. J^rons filiformis, solida, uwJ)ellatim ramosa; apicibus ramorum fascictdato-comosis. Receptdculum in qiioque ramo uniciim, cijlindricum, mediam partemrami circumvestie)is, e paranematibus simjdicibiis verticalibus dense stipatisconstitutum. Sporce ad paranemata tateraliier affixes, oblongce, transversimstriata. Bellotia Eriophorum, Harv. Bellotia Eriophovum, Harv. in An. Sc, Nat. ser. 2. v, 15, p. 332. Harv. inHoo

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