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Title: 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
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866 Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866. History of British sea-weeds
Subjects: Marine algae
Publisher: London : Reeve Brothers
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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vr.B.H.Ulnliflk. &<«Ti I Ser. CiiLOROSPERME^. Fam. Confervece. Plate CCCXXVII. CONFERVA COLLABENS, Jff, Gen. Char. Filaments green, attached or floating, unbranched, composedof a single series 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 collahens; filaments elongated, straight, tufted, very thick (butof various diameters), gelatinous and flaccid, of a splendid seruginousgreen colour; articulations from once to once and a half as long asbroad, filled with a dense granular mass. Conferva coUabens, Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 102. Harv. in Hook. Br. Fl. vol. ii.p. 354. Harv. Man. ed. 1. p. 130. ed. 2. p. 209. Conferva serea /3. lubrica, Bilho. Syn. p. 48. Hormotrichum collabens, Kiitz. 8p. Alg. p. 383. Hab. At Yarmo
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