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.ldellitk T.Ueev Ser. Chlorosperme^e. hm. Oscillatoriea. Plate CCCXVL SCHIZOSIPHON WARUENIiE, Casp. Gen. Char. Frond globose or lobed, gelatinous, composed of closely-packed, anuulated, radiating, sheathed filaments, each of whichsprings from a pellucid cell. Sheath gelatino-membranous, verticallycleft into innumerable hair-Hke shreds. Schizosiphon (Kiltz.),—from o-x^w, to divide, and aKpav, a tube. ScHizoTHRix Warrenia; fastigiately branched; the lowest cell of thebranches wider, hemispherical, lateral; sheaths dark-coloured, thefibres often spiral; apices of the branches much attenuated. Casp, ScnizosiPHON Warreniaj, Caspanj in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd series,vol. vi. p. 266. t. 8. Hab. On rocks at high-water mark, chiefly in places exposed to thedripping of fresh water. Near Mainporth, Falmouth, and atPlymouth, Br. Robert Caspary. Sidmouth, Rev. B. Cresswell. Geogk. Distr. ? Descr. The plant forms a solid crust over the horizontal rock, to the extentof many square fe

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