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 . y seen, and the plant bears considerable resemblanceto some species of Sphoerozyga. The curved filaments and sphe-rical spores render it not very unlike Monormia intricata, Berk.,from which it is, however, perfectly distinct—Thw. 3IS* Fig. 1. C. Spermosira Harveyana :—magnified 250 linear. * I am indebted to my friend G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq., of Bristol, for thedrawings cop
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 . y seen, and the plant bears considerable resemblanceto some species of Sphoerozyga. The curved filaments and sphe-rical spores render it not very unlike Monormia intricata, Berk.,from which it is, however, perfectly distinct—Thw. 3IS* Fig. 1. C. Spermosira Harveyana :—magnified 250 linear. * I am indebted to my friend G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq., of Bristol, for thedrawings copied in Plate CLXXIII., and the accompanying descriptive have also to return him my thanks for the honour he has done me in namingthe Spermosira ; hut especially for the hearty expressions which accompanied thepatent. Writing to congratulate me on a recent appointment, after thekindest expressions, he concludes by saying, Do let me, in honour of the occa-sion, call the beautiful new Spermosira, of which I have just sent you a sketch,S. Harveyana, and thus pay the first tribute of respect, of this kind, to you inyour new capacity. s 6 9 e e & ^ Nfc I ^ 9 ^ • %, * «a^ q> %. Scr. ChlorospermejE. Fam. llormosporcce or Palmellea ? Plate CCXIII. HORMOSPORA RAMOSA, Thw. Gen. Chaii. Filaments gelatinous, confervoid, each enclosing a linearseries of oval or spherical cells. Endochrome green. Fructification :cells of the filaments enlarged and become converted into [Brebisson),—from 6ppos, a necklace, and anopa, a seed. Hormospora ramosa; filaments branched ; endochrome radiated. Hab. Growing attached to the filaments of Cladophorafracta in a salt-water lake near Wareham, Dorsetshire. August and W. Smith. Descr. Filaments gelatinous, irregularly branched. Cells at first subcylindricaland closely coherent; subsequently becoming ovate and distinct. Endo-chrome pale green, radiating from a central nucleus. Filaments at lengthresolved
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