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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.H.lel et HtK. Ser. Rhodosperme^. Fam. Ceramieos. Plate CCLXIX. CALLITHAMNION THUYOIDEUM, Ag. Gen. Chak. Frond rosy or brownish red, filamentous; stem either opakeand cellular, or translucent and jointed; branches jointed, one-tubed,mostly pinnate (rarely dichotomous or irregular); dissepiments liyaHne.Fruit of two kinds, on distinct plants; 1, external tetraspores, scat-tered along the ultimate branchlets, or borne on little pedicels; 2,roundish or lobed berry-like receptacles (favellce) seated on the mainbranches, and containing numerous angular spores. Callithamnion(Lyngh.), from koKko^, beauty, and Bafiviov, a little shrub. Callithamnion tJmyoideum; stem capillary, undivided, set with alternate,distichous, repeatedly pinnate branches, with a narrow lanceolateoutline; branches fiimished with bipinuate or tripinnate plumules;articulations of the branches 2-6 times, of the pinnules about twiceas long as broad; tetraspores borne on the tips of the ultimatepinnules. Callithamnion
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