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

Description:

Identifier: phycologiabri04harv (find matches)
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
Subjects: Marine algae
Publisher: London, Reeve and Benham
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
which are closelypacked together, and extend with their points erect, and sides parallel, likethe threads in a pile of velvet. Substance soft. Colour, when growing, adark, full green, becoming much paler when dry. Fructification not ob-served, but probably similar to that of C. tomentosum. Not being so fortunate as to possess a British specimen ofthis very rare and curious plant, I have been forced to makethe drawing for the plate from some of a fine series which 1 owe 162036 to the kindness of M. Lenormand, who procured them at Gran-ville, on the French coast, where Codiuni Bursa is common.The station on the Sussex coast, quoted from Pallas, is not pro-lific in modern times, nor have I ever seen any British specimenexcept a small one obtained by Mrs. Griffiths, in Devonshire.No one has met with this plant near Belfast but Mr. Templeton,and I have not seen his specimens. Fig. 1. Codium Bursa, fronds:—the natural size. 2. Filaments of which thefrond is composed :—highly magnified.
Text Appearing After Image:
ScT. ClILOROSRER.UK.l.. Faill. SiflAOTlt«.. Plate XXXV. (A). CODIUM ADHERENS, Ag. Gen. Char. Frond green, sponge-like, (globular, cylindrical, or flat;.simple or branched), composed of tubular, interwoven, inarticulatefilaments. Fructification; opake vesicles attached to the filaments.CoDruir (Stuckk.)—from kuSiov, the skin of an animal. Codioi adharens; frond forming a velvetty crust on the surface of rocks. Codium adherens, Ag. Sp. Alg. vol. i. p. 4G7. Ag. Syst. p. 178. Hair, inHook. Journ. vol. i. p. 305. Wyatt. Alg. Dawn. no. 127. Harv.Man.p. 145. /. Ag. Medit. p. 23. Eitdt. 3rd Suppl. p. 21. Kutz.Phyc. Gen.p. 309. Mont. PI. Cell. Canar. p. 183. Agakdiiia adherens, Cabrera, sec. Ag. Hab. On marine rocks, near low-water mark. Perennial. Summer andwinter. Bare. At Torquay, Mrs. Griffiths. Sermen Cove, LandsEnd, Mr. Ralfs. At the back of the pier on a vertical rock, atGorran Haven; and near the Bosand, Gerrans Bay, Cornwall, Mr.Peach. Falmouth Harbour, Miss Warren. Geogr. Distr. A

Note About Images
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 work.