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 . t^SSP: ,3S<;. i Scr. CiilorospkumbjE. Fam. Confervea. Plate LITOREA, Han. Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached or floating, unbranched, composedof a single series of cells or articulations. Fruit, aggregated granulesor zoospores, contained in the cells, having, at some period, a properciliary motion. Conferva (Plin.),—from conferruminare, to cons
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 . t^SSP: ,3S<;. i Scr. CiilorospkumbjE. Fam. Confervea. Plate LITOREA, Han. Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached or floating, unbranched, composedof a single series of cells or articulations. Fruit, aggregated granulesor zoospores, contained in the cells, having, at some period, a properciliary motion. Conferva (Plin.),—from conferruminare, to conso-lidate : because some of the species were used by the ancients forbinding up fractured limbs. , Conferva litorea; filaments thick, rigid, crisped, forming loose, extensivebundles of a dull green colour; articulations once and half as long asbroad, here and there swollen hi pairs and discoloured. Conferva litorea, Harv. Man. ed. 2. p. 208. Conferva linuin, Harv. in Hook. Br. Ft. vol. ii. p. 352. Harv. Man. ed. 128. Wyatt, Alg. Danm. No. 220. (not of Roth.)Hab. In salt-water ditches near the coast; in actuaries, and along themuddy sea-shore, between tide-marks. Annual. Summer. Appin,Copt. Carmichael. Plymouth, Mrs. Wyatt. Ban
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