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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rminal cell sharply subulate. Tetra-spores spherical, frequently opposite, sessile on the sides of the ramelli. Colour a clear, deep crimson-lake, well preserved in drying. Substance membra-naceous, but soon softening in fresh-water. The plant closely adheres topaper in drying. A pretty little species of Wrangelia, with the aspect of a smallspecimen of the European W. midtifida, but differing from thatspecies in several essential characters : particularly in the sharp-pointed or mucronate ramuli. By this latter character it agreeswith W. mynopliylloides, and W. mucronata, but differs by se-veral others; nor is it likely to be confounded with any otherAustralian species. W. crassa and its allies, which externallysomewhat resemble it, have very obtuse ramelh. Fig. 1. Wranqelia nitella,—tJie natural size. 2. Frustule of a branch,showing the main articulations and their whorled ramelli. 3. Part of a fertileramellus. 4. Parts of same :—the latter figures variously magnified. FlaJbc- m.
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^tocent Broiiks^Iirp Ser. Rhodosperme^. Fam. SjihcRrococcoidem. Plate CVI. CALLIBLEPHARIS PREISSIANA, Ag. Gen. Char. Frond flat, cartilagineo-membranaceous, dichotomo-pinnateand fimbriate, formed of two strata of cells; the medullary stratumof roundish-angular, large cells, in several rows; the cortical ofminute coloured cellules. Fructification: 1, sessile conceptacles,containing, within a thick pericarp, on a basal placenta, a tuft ofmoniliform spore-threads; 2, zonate tetraspores, dispersed among thecortical cellules.—Calliblepharis (Kiitz.), from Ka\o<i, heautiful,and /3\e^api<;, literally t/ie eyelashes (cilia), here meaning fringe-like marginal processes. Frons plana, cartilagineo-membranacea, dicJiotomo-pinnata et margine ciliato-fimhriata, ex stratis duohus composita; strata medullari ceUuUs rotundato-angidatis magnis pluriseriatis, corticall cellulis minutis coloratis formato.Friict.: 1, cystocarpia sessilia, intra pericarpium crassum adplacentam basa-lem fasciculimi

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