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 . Ser. ChlorospermejE. Pam. Oscillator iea. Plate CV. A. OSCILLATORIA LITTORALIS, Cam. Gen. Char. Filaments lying in a mucous matrix, rigid, simple, acicular,vividly oscillating. Tube continuous; endocrome green, densely annu-lated with close, parallel, transverse striae.—Oscillatoria, (VaucL),from the motion observed in the filaments, which resembles the oscil-lation of a pe
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 . Ser. ChlorospermejE. Pam. Oscillator iea. Plate CV. A. OSCILLATORIA LITTORALIS, Cam. Gen. Char. Filaments lying in a mucous matrix, rigid, simple, acicular,vividly oscillating. Tube continuous; endocrome green, densely annu-lated with close, parallel, transverse striae.—Oscillatoria, (VaucL),from the motion observed in the filaments, which resembles the oscil-lation of a pendulum. Oscillatoria littoralis, Carrn. Stratum of a vividly aeruginous greencolour; filaments thick, dark green, variously curved; stria? conspi-cuous, littoralis, Carm. Alg. Appin. ined. Harv. in Hook. Brit. ii. p. 375. Hare. Man. p. 165. Hab. In pools, aloug the muddy sea shore, flooded by Spring , Capt. Carmichael. Descr. Stratum exceedingly thin, slimy, bullated by the extrication of air bubbles,of a dark green colour, spreading to an indefinite extent over the muddybottom of the pool. Filaments 1-2 hues long, much thicker than those of0. nigra, straight or slightly c
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