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 . y Miss Hutchins was not a mere Algologist: she cultivatedwith equal ardour every department of Natural History, and toher may most justly be applied the lines quoted by Mr. Turnerwhen concluding a grateful tribute to her memory, in the lastpage of his Historia Fucorum.— In every season of the beauteous yearHer eye was open, and with studious love,Read the Divin
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 . y Miss Hutchins was not a mere Algologist: she cultivatedwith equal ardour every department of Natural History, and toher may most justly be applied the lines quoted by Mr. Turnerwhen concluding a grateful tribute to her memory, in the lastpage of his Historia Fucorum.— In every season of the beauteous yearHer eye was open, and with studious love,Read the Divine Creator in his in thee, sweet Spring, when every nookSome latent beauty to her wakefid searchPresented, some sweet flower, some virtual every native of the hill and valeShe found attraction; and where beauty failed,Applauded odour or commeuded use. Cladqphora Hutchinsite is very closely allied to C. diffusa; butthe filaments are of greater diameter, the ramnli more abundantand shorter, and the joints shorter and generally contracted atthe dissepiments. Fig. 1. Cladophora :—of the natural size. 2. Part of a fila-ment. 3. Small portion of the same:—both jpin/r ex:. Ser. Fam, Confervea. Plate CXXX. CLADOPHORA DIFFUSA, Harv. Gen. Char. Filaments green, jointed, attached, uniform, branched. Fruit,aggregated granules or zoospores, contained in the joints, having atsome period a proper ciliary motion. Cladophora (Kiitz.),—fromk\uSos, a branch, and opea>, to bear. Cladophora diffusa; filaments sub-setaceous, loosely tufted, rigid, darkor full green, flexuous, much branched; branches distant, elongated,irregularly subdivided, or somewhat dichotomous, furnished towardsthe top with a few secund, simple ramuli; articulations 3-4 timeslonger than broad. Conferva diffusa, Roth, Cat. Bot. vol. ii. p. 207. t. 7. Dilhc. Conf. t. Bot. t. 2289. Ag. Si/st. p. 116. Harv. in Hook. Br. Ft. vol. ii. p. in Mack
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