. British marine algae : being a popular account of the seaweeds of Great Britain, their collection and preservation. Marine algae. Fig. 146. Stichidiuin of Plocamium, highly magnified. Fig. 147. Cordylecladia erecta. of many of the genera being found on the Atlantic shores of both hemis- pheres, in the Mediterranean, and in the Indian oceans. Some species are found on the north-west coast of America, and others are abundant in the Southern Ocean, while one species at least, which is so rare in this country, viz., Gigartina Teedii (Fig. 160), is considered quite a common plant on the south Eur
. British marine algae : being a popular account of the seaweeds of Great Britain, their collection and preservation. Marine algae. Fig. 146. Stichidiuin of Plocamium, highly magnified. Fig. 147. Cordylecladia erecta. of many of the genera being found on the Atlantic shores of both hemis- pheres, in the Mediterranean, and in the Indian oceans. Some species are found on the north-west coast of America, and others are abundant in the Southern Ocean, while one species at least, which is so rare in this country, viz., Gigartina Teedii (Fig. 160), is considered quite a common plant on the south European shores, where it is frequently found in fruit— a fact which has never been recorded of specimens taken in Britain. Several of the Cryptonemiacece might be used as articles of food; the well-known Carrageen moss, formerly used medicinally in consumptive cases, is com- posed of two species, Chondrus crispus (Fig. 162) and Gigartina mamillosa (Fig. 161), both of which may be boiled down to a jelly, and when mixed with milk or meal makes a far more wholesome article of food than indifferent potatoes or other vegetables ; and that pretty membranous plant, Iridcea edulis, as indeed its specific name implies, is by no means an indifferent esculent, in spite of what some writers have said to the contrary, for the flavour when cooked, is, as I have found, remarkably like roasted oysters. The title of this Order is derived from the characteristic form and situation of the Favellidia of most of these plants; each favellidium consisting of masses of spores which are developed within the substance of the frond, or, as Dr. Harvey says, " either wholly con- cealed beneath the surface cells, or their place is indicated by a minute. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Grattann, W. H. London : The &qu
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