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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
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•W.H.Il. itl.tlitt. Hcevi t Kir^oli i Scr. Melanosperme^. Earn. Ckordariea. Plate CCCXXIII. ELACHISTEA SCUTULATA, Dubj. Gen. Char. Frond parasitical, consisting of a dense tuft of free, simple,articulated, olivaceous filaments, rising from a common tubercularbase, composed of vertical branching fibres, closely combined intoa cartilaginous mass. Fructification, pear-shaped spores attachednear the bases of the filaments, concealed in the tubercle, and fre-quently accompanied by paranemata. Elachistea (Fries),—fromekaxifTTa, the least; from the small size of these plants. Elachistea scutulata; filaments short, rising from an oblong, convex,shield-like tubercle, composed of densely packed, branching fibres;articidations twice or thrice as long as broad; spores oblong. Elachistea scutiUata, Buhy, Bot. Gall. vol. ii. p. 972. JIarv. Man. ed. 2.p. 50. KMz. Syst. Alg. p. 540. /. Ag. Sp. Alg. p. 11. Conferva scutulata, Eng. Bot. t. 2311. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii.p. 355. Harv. in Mack.
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