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, Ghloeospehme^i. Fam. Oscillatoriea. Plate HYDNOIDES, Carm. Gen. Char. Filainents destitute of a mucous layer, erect, tufted or aggre-gated, fixed at the base, somewhat rigid, not oscillating. Tube con-tinuous ; cndochroine green, densely annulatcd, at length dissolvedinto lenticular sporidia. Calothrix (Jg.),—from ko\os, beautiful,and 8pit;, a
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, Ghloeospehme^i. Fam. Oscillatoriea. Plate HYDNOIDES, Carm. Gen. Char. Filainents destitute of a mucous layer, erect, tufted or aggre-gated, fixed at the base, somewhat rigid, not oscillating. Tube con-tinuous ; cndochroine green, densely annulatcd, at length dissolvedinto lenticular sporidia. Calothrix (Jg.),—from ko\os, beautiful,and 8pit;, a hair. Calothrix hydnoides; patches widely spreading, flatfish, dark olive-green;filaments elongated, flexuous, cylindrical, obtuse, interwoven below,their tips cohering in rigid, erect, tooth-like bundles; border of thefilament wide, pellucid. Calothrix hvdnoides, Carm. in Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii. p. 369. ITarv. 2. p. 225. Scytonema hydnoides, Carm. Alga Appinenses, MSS. cum icone. Symploca bydnoides, Kg. Sp. Jig. p. 272. Hab. On the clayey sea-shore, near high-water mark. Appin, Copt. Car-micTiael. Near Queenstown, Cork Harbour, and various otherplaces, W. II. II. Sidmouth, Rev. R. Cresswett. Geogk. Pistr.
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