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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![Styllariea?.] licmophoka. 321 since its discovery at Appin by Capt. Carmichael, til] it was got m considerable abundance by D. L, junr., in September ISIS, at low water mark in a little creek formed by trap dykes, in the parish of Ardrossan. When he brought it to me, I was much struck with its beauty. Hoping that it was . splenclida I sent it to Dr. Greville, and was gratified by his pronouncing it to be that rare plant. Though minute it is well deserving of the name of splendid; it is like an assemblage of hundreds of beautiful little fans. Had I believed m the existence of fairies as firmly as I did in my childish years, I could have imagined that some marine Queen Mab, and all the ladies of her court, were congre- gated amidst the branchlets and filaments of the little Alga. “Matenem. superabat opus:” every fan was of exquisite wor manship. Raised on a little stem, they were spread out so as to form in some cases more than a semi-circle he rays numbering from ten to twenty-six. Each ray or rustule was wedge-shaped, and a little denticulated at the top ; the upper part was amber-coloured, and as each ray had a lighter coloured dot in the middle of this portion, these right dots formed a crescent of sea-gems, adorning the fan. nder this amber-coloured portion there was a pellucid band, the lower part of the fan being amber-coloured, like](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22024815_0389.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
