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 . ictly accords with the properstructure of that genus; but it may remain in that convenientreceptacle until its true structure is fully made out. Should iteventually be made the type of a new genus, I fear KiitzingsGoniotrichum can scarcely be adopted, because he confoundsunder that name both Bangia ? elegans, Chauv., and Bangiaciliaris, Carm., two very distinct plants, and
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 . ictly accords with the properstructure of that genus; but it may remain in that convenientreceptacle until its true structure is fully made out. Should iteventually be made the type of a new genus, I fear KiitzingsGoniotrichum can scarcely be adopted, because he confoundsunder that name both Bangia ? elegans, Chauv., and Bangiaciliaris, Carm., two very distinct plants, and the latter a trueBangia. Fig. 1. Tufts of Bangia? ceramicola, growing on an old piece of P. ni-grescens :—the natural size. 2. Portions of four filaments, showing thevariations of size and length of joints. 3. An empty filament:—the twolast figures very highly magnified. * While this sheet is passing through the press, I have received from a specimen which shows the commencement of the fruitingprocess described by Carmichael, and in which the articulations are shorter thanin the specimen 1 have figured. I no longer entertain any doubt of the identity(it Carmichaels and my plants. FUtfr CCJ&VL. Ser. ChlokospermejE. Pain. Uluacea ? Plate CCXLVI. BANGIA (?) ELEGANS, Clam. Gen. Char. Frond filiform, tubular, composed [in the typical species) ofnumerous radiating cellules, disposed in transverse rows and enclosedwithin a hyaline, continuous sheath. Spores purple or green, formedwithin each of the cells of the frond. Bangia (Lyngb.),—in honourof H. Bang, a Danish Botanist, and friend of Lyngbye. Bangia? elegans; filaments minute, dichotomously branched, with verypatent axils; branches containing a single row of simple or bhiatc,purple granular cells. Bangia elegans, Ckauv. Mem. Soc. Linn. Norm. vol. vi. p. 13. Alg. vii. no. 159. Eeckerc/tes, p. 33. Hab. Parasitical on the smaller algse. Very rare. Dredged in Strang-ford Lough at Portaferry, adhering t
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