Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . e ? Tagrag and bobtailis not without appropriateness. The English botanist will how-ever be reminded of the EriopJiorum, or Cotton-Grass, of ourmountains and bogs, the resemblance to which is very consider-able, and if the colour of the balls were white, would be complete. It is needless to contrast this most distinctly characterizedgenus with any other. Its nearest known ally is Encyothalia,and a comparison of the figure now^ given with that just referredto, will show that these pl
Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ..and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae .. . e ? Tagrag and bobtailis not without appropriateness. The English botanist will how-ever be reminded of the EriopJiorum, or Cotton-Grass, of ourmountains and bogs, the resemblance to which is very consider-able, and if the colour of the balls were white, would be complete. It is needless to contrast this most distinctly characterizedgenus with any other. Its nearest known ally is Encyothalia,and a comparison of the figure now^ given with that just referredto, will show that these plants could not well be placed in thesame genus, if the principles received among algologists be ad-hered to. The present Alga, besides its intrinsic interest, will alwayshave a special claim on the attention of the collector, from itsrecalling the name of Bellot, so nobly associated with thesearch after Pbanklin. Fio-. 1. An umbellate branch of Bellotia Eriophokum,—ilie natural size. section of a receptacle. 3. Paranemata, with spores from the same:—the latter figures magnified. J:^Uit(^. ^foicent Brooks, Iirj). Ser, Ehodosperme^. Fam. Wrangeliacece. Plate LXX. WRANGELIA HALURUS, Haw. Gen. Char. Frond^xioxxa, decompouucl^ articulated, one-tubed; the in-teruodes naked or coated with minute cellules; the nodes clothedwith opposite or whorled, articulated ramelli. Fructification: 1,cydocarps terminating short branches, involucrated by the upper-most whorled ramelli, and consisting of tufts of pear-shaped, pedicel-late spores and slender paranemata; 2, naked, triangularly partedtetraspores, borne on the sides of the whorled ramelli.—Wrangelia{Ag.), in honour of Baron Wrangel, a Swedish naturalist. Frons filiformis, decomposita, articulata, monosiphonia, nuda v. celluUs corticata,verticillis ramellorum ad genicula onusta. Fruct.: 1, cystocarpia 7amos ter-mmantia, ramellis siipremis involucrata, fuscicuUs nuinerosis sporarum pyrl-formium pedicellatarum et paranema
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