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 . et Ul:h b Ser. Fam. Oscillatoriea. Plate CCXLIX. MICROCOLEUS ANGUIFORMIS, Haw. Gen. Char. Filaments minute, rigid, straight, transversely striate, bundled,and enclosed within membranaceous, simple or branching sheaths,from whose apices they oscillate. Microcoleus (Desmaz.),— frompiKpos, small, and Kokeos, a sheath. Microcoleus anguiformis ; s
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 . et Ul:h b Ser. Fam. Oscillatoriea. Plate CCXLIX. MICROCOLEUS ANGUIFORMIS, Haw. Gen. Char. Filaments minute, rigid, straight, transversely striate, bundled,and enclosed within membranaceous, simple or branching sheaths,from whose apices they oscillate. Microcoleus (Desmaz.),— frompiKpos, small, and Kokeos, a sheath. Microcoleus anguiformis ; sheaths snake-like, simple, decumbent, taperingmuch to the extremity; filaments slender, with distant strife. Microcoleus anguiformis, Kan. MSS. Hass. Fr. Water Alg. p. 70. fig. 1. Hab. Pools of brackish water, near the shore, at Dolgelly, Mr. Balfs. Geogr. Distr. Coast of Wales. Desck. This minute plant forms a dense stratum of a dark green colour on thesurface of the mud. The sheaths are grouped together without order, de-cumbent, much entangled, and variously twisted into many snake-like folds,broad at the extremity from which the filaments oscillate, and taperingmuch towards the other end. The inclosed f
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