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 . B. Ser. CiiLoitosrEitMEiE. Fam, Novtochinea. Plate CLXXIII. A. SPH/EROZYGA BROOMEI, Thw. mss. Gen. Char. Filaments free, simple, moniliform, consisting of a series ofordinary cells, interrupted here and there by a cell of a different kind{connecting cell or helerocyst). Spores formed from the ordinarycells. Spiijerozyga {Ag.),—from <r$cupa, a sphere, and (ijos, a yok
Phycologia britannica, or, A History of British sea-weeds, containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands . B. Ser. CiiLoitosrEitMEiE. Fam, Novtochinea. Plate CLXXIII. A. SPH/EROZYGA BROOMEI, Thw. mss. Gen. Char. Filaments free, simple, moniliform, consisting of a series ofordinary cells, interrupted here and there by a cell of a different kind{connecting cell or helerocyst). Spores formed from the ordinarycells. Spiijerozyga {Ag.),—from <r$cupa, a sphere, and (ijos, a yoke. Broomei; spores numerous, elliptical, twice as long aswide, not much exceeding in width the ordinary cells, commencing tobe formed from the cells nearest the connecting cells: connectingcells smooth, subquadrate, rather longer than wide.—Thw. MSS. Hab. On dead leaves of Myriophyllum, &c, in a brackish ditch at Shire-hampton, near Bristol. June. Mr. G. E. Broome; Mr. G. H. A very distinct species, first detected by G. E. Broome, Esq.,an excellent Cryptogamic botanist, after whom it is named.—Thwaites. Fig. A. Filaments of Sph,erozyga Broomei :—magnified 250 linear. Plate CLXXIII. B. SP
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