Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . they are pretty uniformly 3-4-5 timesas long as broad; the ultimate ones are ellipsoid and very blunt. All thenodes are constricted and very narrow; and the cell is filled with bright-green endochrome, which partly recovers its form when moistened. Thesubstance is membranous, not very soft; and the plant, except when young,does not strongly adhere to paper in drying. The colour at first is a bril- liant grass-green ; afterwards it becomes pale, and before the plant parishes,frequent
Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . they are pretty uniformly 3-4-5 timesas long as broad; the ultimate ones are ellipsoid and very blunt. All thenodes are constricted and very narrow; and the cell is filled with bright-green endochrome, which partly recovers its form when moistened. Thesubstance is membranous, not very soft; and the plant, except when young,does not strongly adhere to paper in drying. The colour at first is a bril- liant grass-green ; afterwards it becomes pale, and before the plant parishes,frequently a dirty-white or yellowish. This is one of the commonest species in Western AustraUa,where it may be taken to represent the C. latevirens of Europeanseas. The filaments are however more robust, the joints pro-portionally shorter, and the branching different. Its swollen,blunt cells remind us of a Valonia; but the resemblance is oneof analogy only. Fig. 1. Cladophora valonioides,—the natural size. 2. End of a branchand ramuli. 3. Terminal cells:—the two latter figures variously j^ff^wi/^W.
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