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. CiiLOKOSPKRMEi*;. F;un. Confervete. Plate CCCXXVIII. CONFERVA YOUNGANA, Mlw. Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached or floating, unbranched, composedof a single scries of cells or articulations. Fruit, aggregated gra-nules or zoospores, contained in the articulations, and having, atsome period, a proper ciliary motion. Conferva (Plin.),—fromconferruminare, to consolidate
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. CiiLOKOSPKRMEi*;. F;un. Confervete. Plate CCCXXVIII. CONFERVA YOUNGANA, Mlw. Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached or floating, unbranched, composedof a single scries of cells or articulations. Fruit, aggregated gra-nules or zoospores, contained in the articulations, and having, atsome period, a proper ciliary motion. Conferva (Plin.),—fromconferruminare, to consolidate; because some of the species wereused by the ancients for binding up fractured limbs. Conferva Yonngana; filaments short, tufted, straight or nearly so, some-what rigid; articulations once or twice as long as broad, dissepi-ments finally contracted. Conferva Youngana, Dillw. Conf. t. 102. Harv. in Hook. Br. Ft. vol. 354. Harv. Man. ed. 1. p. 131. ed. 2. p. 210. Ag. Sgst. p. 101. Conferva isogona, E. Bot. Hormotrichum Younganum, Ktitz. Sp. Alg. p. 382. Hormotrichum isogonum, Ktitz. Sp. Alg. p. 382. Hab. On rocks and stones near high water-mark, on various parts of thecoast. Annual. Summer. Discovered
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