Identifier: phycologiabritan03har (find matches)
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.HH.ael etitk. U.B.&R imf Ser. Rhodosperme^. Fam. Rhodomelex. Plate CCLXIV. RHODOMELA SUBFUSCA, J^. Gen. Char. Fiwul filiform, solid, much branched, inarticulate, reticulated;the axis composed of concentric layers of oblong, hyaline cells; theperiphery of several rows of minute, irregular, coloured cellules.Fructijicaiion, 1, ovate capsules (cercuiddia), containing a tuft of pear-shaped spores; 2, tetraspores immersed in swollen ramuli, or con-tained in proper pod-like receptacles (stichidia) in a single or doublerow. Rhodomela (Ag.),—from pobeos, red, and /xeXa?, black; becausethe species usually become darker in drying. Rhodomela subfusca ; frond filiform, much branched; the branches irre-gularly divided, clothed with pinnated branchlets, and subulate, simplescattered or fasciculate ramuli; pinnules subulate; tetraspores con-tained either in the somewhat swollen ultimate ramuli (in smnmer),or in proper branching stichidia (produced in winter). EnoDOMELA subfusca. Ag. Sp. Alg.

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