A popular history of British seaweeds : comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algae / by D. Landsborough.
- David Landsborough
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A popular history of British seaweeds : comprising their structure, fructification, specific characters, arrangement, and general distribution, with notices of some of the fresh-water algae / by D. Landsborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Confer vetr.'] It is a remarkably variable plant. I remember finding a beautiful variety of it in the pool of a little cascade at King's Cove, Arran. The filaments were simple, not tufted, of a fine delicate texture, and having, when dried, a soft, silky, glossy appearance, such as Cladophora gracilis often has. The most beautiful specimens of it I ever saw were found by D. L., jun., at Corriegills in Arran, in the month of September. They were quite of the normal type, beauti- fully tufted, of a lively green, and retaining all their beauty when dried. The time for getting it in the greatest beauty is in early summer, when it is in a young state, or in the autumn, when it sometimes assumes a fresh dress after the scorching heat of summer. Mr. Hassall, in his ‘British Fresh-water Algae/ says: — “Notwithstanding that its usual resort is the stream and the waterfall, it will flourish and increase in size amazingly for weeks and months in a vessel the water of which is occa- sionally renewed. I have thus kept it for many weeks, removing (when by its growth it had filled the vessel) all but a small portion of it; this however speedily increased, and again filled its dwelling-jdace. The tearing away of portions of the plant in no way impaired the vitality of the remainder, as, from its aggregation of minute cells, each the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28083933_0405.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
