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. Chlokospermi i Pam. Confervea. Plate CCCLV. A. CLADOPHORA MAGDALENtE, n. sp. Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached, uniform, branched, composed ofa single series of cells or articulations. Fruit, aggregated granulesor zoospores, contained in the articulations, having, at some period,a proper ciliary motion. Cladophora (Kiitz.),—from opto>, to bear. Cladophora Magdale


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. Chlokospermi i Pam. Confervea. Plate CCCLV. A. CLADOPHORA MAGDALENtE, n. sp. Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached, uniform, branched, composed ofa single series of cells or articulations. Fruit, aggregated granulesor zoospores, contained in the articulations, having, at some period,a proper ciliary motion. Cladophora (Kiitz.),—from opto>, to bear. Cladophora Magdalence; filaments capillary, blackish-green, short, decum-bent (?), matted together, slightly branched, irregularly bent; branchespatent or divaricate, curved, dichotomous or secund, with wide axils;ramuli few, spreading, falcate, as thick as the cells from which theyspring; articulations thrice or four times as long as broad, filled withvery dense opake endochrome; dissepiments very narrow, not con-tracted. Hab. At Jersey, Miss Magdalene Turner. Descr. Filaments, in the only specimen examined, about an inch long,matted together, hut not tufted, apparently growing either prostrate orenta


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