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
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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h a stipes or ribin B. pahnata. A difference in fruit, and in the intimate struc-ture of the frond, further obliges us to place these two plants,so like externally, not only in different genera, but in differentfamilies. The genus Epymenia was founded by Kiitzing on a plant fromthe Cape, which had been referred by Greville to Pki/Uophora.That species (E. obfMsa, Kiitz.) is nearly related to the Alganow figured, but is of much brighter colour, of thicker sub-stance, with broader, more wedge-shaped, and much more ab-ruptly obtuse apices. It has been found in New Zealand, andmay perhaps occur on the south coast of Tasmania, but has notyet been recorded. A third species (E. acuta) is found in NewZealand. The Bhod. variolosa, of Flora Antarctica, referredto Epymenia by Kiitzing, does not belong to this genus. Fig. 1. Epymenia membranacea. 2. Fragment of a fruit-bearing frond:—both of the tiatm-al size. 3. Section through a pericarp, showing the en-closed favella,—magnified. ^ Tlcte^ZO.
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Ser. RHODOSPERMEiE. Fam. Ceramiacece, Plate XC. CALLITHAMNION LICMOPHORUM, iiarv. Gen. Char. Frond filiform, branched, articulated, monosiphonoiis, the stemand branches (in many species) at length thickened internally, orcoated externally with decurrent filaments; ramuli always pellucidlyarticulate and monosiphonous, Fructification: 1, favella generallyin pairs, axillary or sessile on the branches, naked, containing nume-rous angular spores; 2, tetraspores naked, sessile or pedicellate, dis-tributed on the ramuli, generally triangularlyparted.—Callithamnion(L?/ngb.), from KaXka, beautiful, and Oa/juvLov, a little shrub. Fro7is filiformis, ramosa, articulata, monosiphonia, caule ramisque majorihus(in plurlhus) deviumfibris decurrentibiis interne vel externe evolutis corticatisv.firmatis ; ramulis semper pellucidearticulatis. Fruct.: \, favellcebinatiB,axillares v. ad ramos sessiles, nuda, sporas numerosas angulatas foventes; 2,tetrasporcB nudce, ad ramulos sessiles v.pedicellata, tri

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