Phycologia Britannica, or, A history of British sea-weeds : containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands

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Title: Phycologia Britannica, or, A history of British sea-weeds : containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866 Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866. History of British sea-weeds
Subjects: Marine algae
Publisher: London : Reeve Brothers
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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W.H.H.idftUth. Ser. Rhodosperme^. Earn. Rhodomelea. Plate CCCXIX. POLYSIPHONIA CARMICHAELIANA. Haw. Gen. Char. Frond filamentous^ partially or generally articulate; jointslongitudinally striate, composed of numerous radiating cells or tubesdisposed round a central cavity. Fructification twofold, on differentindividuals: 1, ovate capsules (ceramidia) furnished with a terminalpore, and containing a tuft of pear-shaped spores; 2, ietras^wresimbedded in swollen branchlets. Polysiphonia (Grev.),—fromnoXvs, many, and a-icpcov, a tube. Polysiphonia Carmichaeliana; stem inarticulate, percurrent, flexuous,rigid, set throughout with lateral, alternate, inarticulate, divaricatingbranches; ramuli scattered, very patent, irregularly forked, articulate;articulations as long as broad, three-tubed. Polysiphonia CarmichaeUana, Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. p. 328. Harv. Man. ed. 2. p. 87.Polysiphonia divaricata, Carm. MS. (not of Agardli). Hab. Parasitical on Desmarestia aculeata. Appiu, Copt. Car

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