. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . C. rupestris. Dark green ; filaments straight, rigid, tufted; branchescrowded; many branchlets flattened against the filaments, so that thealga somewhat resembles grass; five to ten inches long. The cell-divisions show plainly. Plants of this species do not adhere to paperin drying. They are found on rocks at low-water mark, and are com-mon on the northern New England coast. (Plate III.) C. gracilis. Bright yellow-green; filaments very fine, loosely tufted,three to twelve inch
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . C. rupestris. Dark green ; filaments straight, rigid, tufted; branchescrowded; many branchlets flattened against the filaments, so that thealga somewhat resembles grass; five to ten inches long. The cell-divisions show plainly. Plants of this species do not adhere to paperin drying. They are found on rocks at low-water mark, and are com-mon on the northern New England coast. (Plate III.) C. gracilis. Bright yellow-green; filaments very fine, loosely tufted,three to twelve inches long, soft, silky, much branched; branches rathershort, and branchlets more or less curved and arranged in a comb-likemanner. It grows on wharves, in muddy pools, and on eel-grass.(Plate IV.) ORDER ULVACEJE The plants of this order are, with few exceptions, formed ofcelled surfaces and show the earliest type of an expanded cells form thin membranes, which sometimes are broad sur-faces of no definite shape, sometimes are narrow and ribbon-like,or they may be simple or branched tubes. When the membrane.
Size: 1176px × 2126px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectmarinea, bookyear1901
