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 . tached to a piece of deal, differs soextraordinarily from the common appearance of C. area, that,except under a microscope, nobody would suspect them of beingthe same. It grew in a very large tuft, and its filaments wereremarkably soft, tender, slippery, and glossy, so as to float with the slightest agitation of the water, and adhere closely to paperand glass in drying. To
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 . tached to a piece of deal, differs soextraordinarily from the common appearance of C. area, that,except under a microscope, nobody would suspect them of beingthe same. It grew in a very large tuft, and its filaments wereremarkably soft, tender, slippery, and glossy, so as to float with the slightest agitation of the water, and adhere closely to paperand glass in drying. To this I have only to add that thefigure here given has been drawn from the original specimen,and that no one has since met with a similar one in this , however, states that he has received it from the northof Germany. The filaments differ from each other very extra-ordinarily in diameter, so that one might suppose there werehalf a dozen different species under the microscope specific character least variable seems to be the extremelubricity and softness. Fig. 1. Tuft of Conferva collabens:—the natural size. 2. Filaments ofvarious diameters :—all highly (and equally) magnified. Fuu cam. Ser. Pam. Gmfervea. Plate BANGIOIDES, Haw. Gen. Char. Filaments green, jointed, attached or floating, , aggregated granules, or zoospores, contained in the articu-lations, having, at some period, a proper ciliary motion.—Conferva(Ftin.), from conferruminare, to consolidate; because some of thespecies were used by the ancients in cases of fractured bones. Conferva bangioides; filaments attached, elongated, very slender, soft andlubricous, wavy; articulations about twice as long as broad, containing,at maturity, a compact dark green mass; dissepiments broad, bangioides, Harv. Man. Ed. 1. p. 131. Ed. 2. bangioides, Kiltz. Sp. Alg. p. bangioides, Hass. Fr. Alg. p.
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