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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
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W.H.K.1,1 .t lit\ Htm t,Niclu>la,4ar Ser. lliiODOSPERME-«. Fam. Coccocarpea;. Plate CCCXXXVII. GELIDIUM CARTILAGINEUM, Gaiu. (I EN. Chau. Frond linear, compressed, pinnated; its axis composed ofdensely interwoven, longitudinal, tenacious fibres; the periphery ofsmall, polygonal cells. Fructification of two kinds, on distinct in-dividuals : 1, tuhercles (faveUidia) immersed in swollen ramuli, con-taining a spherical mass of oblong spores; 2, tetraspores containedin club-shaped ramuli, bipartite or tripartite. Gelidium (Lam.),—from gelu, frost, whence also gelatine; but none of the species of therestricted genus are gelatinous. Gelidium cartilagineum; frond several times pinnated, pinnae and pin-nulse alternate, erecto-patent, with rounded axils, linear, obtuse;tubercles elliptical, mucronate, immersed in the ultimate pinnules, Gelidium cartilagineum, Gaill. Bestim. p. 15. Dul^i/, Bot. Gall. p. 948.Grev. Alg. Brit. p. 140. Hook. Br. Ft. vol. ii. p. 3U4. Harv. Man. ed. 1.p. 81. ed.
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