A popular history of British sea-weeds ... with notices of some of the fresh-water Algae / By the Rev. D. Landsborough.
- David Landsborough
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A popular history of British sea-weeds ... with notices of some of the fresh-water Algae / By the Rev. D. Landsborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lickinece.'] both may be seen in Dr. Gtreville's Algae Britannic®, pi. vi., where it may be learned how much the two species differ in fructification, the capsules of lichina pygmcna being subglo- bose and sessile upon the frond; whereas the capsules of L. confinis are oval and terminal. The generic name im- plies its resemblance to lichens, among which Prof. Harvey, it is probable, means to place it, as he has omitted it in his catalogue of Algae. To whatever department these little plants may be found to belong, insignificant though they may seem, they are far from being useless. They give variety to the appearance of the otherwise barren-looking rocks on the sea-shore. We are not always sufficiently aware how much our kind Creator consults the happiness of man, even in making what would be offensive, or at least unpleasing, all -beauty to the eye.” Look at an old ruinous stone wall by the road- side, under the shade, it may be, of some overhanging trees. Were it a bare ruin, it would be a disagreeable ob- ject, but it is covered with mosses and lichens of all shapes and hues, which so change its aspect that it really gives pleasure even to those who think not how the effect is pro- duced, and know nothing about the mosses and lichens by which the mural ruin is enriched. Now our little Lichina H](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22024815_0133.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
