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.U cLeletlith.. Ser. Rhodosperme^. Fam. RhodomelecB. Plate CCLXXVIII. POLYSIPHONIA SIMULANS, Harv. Gen. Char. Frond filamentous, partially or generally articulate; jointslongitudinally striate, composed of numerous radiating cells or tubes,disposed 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, tetrasjooresimbedded in swollen branclilets. Polysiphonia (Grev.), — fromnoKvs, many, and a-Lcfxov, a tube. Polysiphonia simulans; filaments slender, bushy, branched from the base;branches alternate, patent, repeatedly (but irregidarly) pinnate; thepenultimate branches long and simple, set with short, (hstant, spine-like ramuli; articulations of the branches once and half as long asbroad, of the ramuli shorter, many-tubed; siphons about twelve;ceramidia globose or ovate. Polysiphonia simulans, Harv. Man. ed. 2. p. 89. Polysiphonia spinulosa, Griff, in Harv

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