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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XLVIL),from which it differs in being of smaller size, in the much greatertenuity of the filaments and especially of the upper branchesand ramuli, in the very soft substance and yellow-green colour.It is not likely to be confounded with any Australian species,but agrees in several respects with some from Japan; and inramification with the European C.pellucida and its allies. The first specimens I saw were observed in a book of care-fully dried and well selected Algse, prepared by Mr. Baines, ofMelbourne, for exhibition in the Victorian Crystal Palace, andwhich were, I believe, afterwards contributed to the Paris Ex-hibition of 1855. The book was sent to Dr. Eerd. Mueller andmyself for our inspection, previous to being forwarded to theExhibition, and we agreed to affix Mr. Bainess name to thisnew species of his discovery. Fig. 1. Cladophora Bainesii,— the natural size. 2. Portion of the upperextremity of a branch. 3. Cells from a ramulus :—the latter figures mag-nified. FlMe. CHIl
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A^ivcsnt BxoQkB.Itttp Ser. RHODOSPERMEiE. Fam, Gelidiacea? Plate CXIII. THAMNOCLONIUM FLABELLIFORME, Sond. Gen. Chae. Frond dendroid or flabelliform, compressed or plane, imper-fectly costate, rigidly horny or coriaceous, mostly covered with spi-nous tubercles, composed of two strata; the mediiUary stratum verydense, of slender, cylindrical, longitudinally seriated cellules; corticalof roundish-angular, coloured cells. Fructification: \, cydocarps ?;3, cruciate tetraspores, contained in nemathecia.—Thamnoclonium(Kdtz.), from 6a^vo<i, a shrub, and kXqjv, a branch. Frons dendroidea v. fiabeUiformis, compressa v. plana, immerse costata, rigidecornea et coriacea, scepissime spinuloso-verrucosa, stratis duohns composita;strata meduUari densissimo, celluUs cylindraceis (jracilibus longitudinaliier se-riatis; corticali ceUulis rotundato-angulatis coloratis formato. Fruct.: 1,cystocarpia ignota; 2, tetrasporce cruciatim divisce, in nemat/ieciis propriisevolutce. Thamnoclonium fiabcllifor

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