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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in thecloseness or laxity and the size of the oval ramenta that coverits branches. When growing in shallow tide-pools, near thesummit of the reef, it is greatly dwarfed, but not otherwisechanged. The slender varieties are from deep water. The var.^, which I had at one time felt disposed to separate specifically,grew in deep tide-pools near low-water mark, and was of somuch more brilliant colour and more lubricous substance thanvar. a, and had such large ramenta, that, when growing, itlooked very different. Afterwards I found some intermediatespecimens that connected it with the normal form. Though common in many places along the west and southcoasts of Australia, C. swipliciuscula has, until very recently,been only known to most botanists by Turners figure and de-scription. Fig. 1. Caulerpa simpliciuscula, the normal form,—natural size. 2. Oneof its ramenta,—mngmjud. 3. Var. (3. vesiculifeka,—tlie natural size.4. One of its ramenta,—magnified to the same scale as Jig. 2. tlcUi
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rn^w^ Ser. Rhodosperme^, Fain. Ceramiacea. Plate LXVI. DASYPHILA PREISSII, Sond. Gen. Char. Frond filiform, distichous, decompound-pinnate, inarticulate,fibroso-cellular, with an articulated monosiphonous axis; the surfacedensely clothed with articulated, free, hair-like ramelli. Fructifica-tion: 1, \\vjo\\x.cxdiie favella, terminating short branches, and contain-ing numerous angular spores; 2, tripartite tetraspores, formed at thetips of the investing ramelli.—Dasyphila (Sond.), from 8aav^,hairy, and (fjtXeco, to love ? FronsfiUformis, disticJia, decomposite pinnata, inarticidata, fibroso-ceUulosa, axiarticulato monosiplionio percursa, et fdis minutis ramosis articulatis undhiuevestita. Fruct.: l,favell(S involucratce (tit in Ptilota) ; 2, tetrasporce ex arti-culis terminalibus filorum formatcB, triangide divisce. Dasyphila Preissii, Sond. Dasyphila Preissii, Sond. in Mold and Sch. But. Zed. 1845,;?. 53. Sond. inPI. Freiss.v. 2.p. 169. Kiltz. Sp. Alg. p. 673. /. Ag. Sp. Ahj. v. 2.

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