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Identifier: phycologiaaustra02harv (find matches)
Title: Phycologia australica; or, A history of Australian sea weeds ... and a synopsis of all known Australian Algae ..
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866
Subjects: Algae
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
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anonly be seen in its perfect form, stretched ont (like Miltonshero) on the sea-shore. I can only show the stump and the tipof one of its long arms; and must refer the student, for its othercharacters, to the detailed description. Fortunately, there is nospecies of Cijstophora with which it can be confounded; for it isthe only one that has branches springing from the edge (not thebroadside) of a fattened stem. I have never seen vesicles, norare they described by Turner or Agardh. This species does notoccur, so far as I am aware, in West Australia. After passingCape Northumberland, which seems to mark the western limitof several of the larger Fucoids, it becomes abundant, and con-tinues through Basss Straits to Tasmania. YW. 1. Cystophora spartioides ; portion of the stem, with the base of apbma. 2. Apex of a pinna:—both the natural size. 3. Portion of one ofthe ultimate dichotomous ramiili, with beaded receptacles Ibrmed from theterminal segment,—moderately magnified. PLcLte LZim.
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Ser. EhodospermEjE. Fam. Comliliiacea. Plate LXXVII. AMPHIROA AUSTRALIS, Sond Gen. Char. Frond terete, compressed, or flat, calcareous, articulated, di-chotomous, pinnated or whorled. Nodes cartilaginous. Fruct.: 1,conceptacles conical, wart-like, sessile on the disc of the articulations,furnished with an apical pore, and containing in the base of thecavity a tuft of erect, pyriform, at length four-parted spore-threads.—Amphiroa (Lamour.), a fanciful mythological name. Frons calcarea, fragiUs, teres v. compressa v. plana, articulata, dichotoma v.pinnatm ramosa v. verticillata. Genicula cartiUujinea. Fr.: 1, concejitaculaconica, verrucceformia, ad superjiciem articulorwm sessUia, apice poro pertusa,in fundo loculifila sporifera fasciculata erecta demum quadripartita foventia. Amphiroa australis; dichotomous or trichotomous; the lower joints li-near, compressed, upper broadly oval-oblong, emarginate at each end,flat, sharply edged; nodes naked, short; ceramidia? A. australis; dichotom
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