The English flora - SeaweedAfrica

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77. Belonia. Filaments minute, heaped together, submo-
niliform, finally dissolving into elliptic sporidia.
Tribe XVIII. Byssoide/E. Plcmts of doubtful affinity, re-
lated to the Fungi. Filaments articulated, hyaline or coloured.
Fructification ; granules scattered among the filaments, or capsules.—Found
on rotten wood, among mosses, on the ground, on
glass, or in chemical solutions : a few inhabit frcsh-xcater and
one or two the sea.
78. Byssocladium. Filaments arachnoid, radiating from a
centre, with scattered external granules.
79. Mycinema. Filaments membranaceous, opaque, tenacious,
coloured, (on rotten wood.)
80. Chroolepus. Filaments rigid, subsolid, opaque, torulose,
falling to powder.
81. Trentepohlia. ' Filame?its flexile, coloured, capsulifer-
ous. Capsules terminal, (on trees, rocks, and in fresh-water.)
82. Protonema. Filaments subarticulated, rooting, (among
mosses.)
83. Hygrocrocis. Filaments hyaline, interwoven into an
uniform membrane or gelatine, (in chemical solutions.)
84. Leptomitus. Filaments hyaline, erect, parasitical,
(growing in fresh water or the sea.)
Div. III. Gloioclade/e. 1
Plants consisting of numerous globules, orfilaments invested with
a definite gelatine andforming globose or filiform fronds.
Tribe XIX. Batrachosperme.e. Plantsfiliform or globose,
composed ofarticulated, branched filaments, in rested with at /< it inc.
Fructification; SOfor us it is known, capsules on tin.
uli—Marine or in frcsh-wuti
ultimate fam-
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A. Filiform.
85. Me80gl6ia. Axis gelatinous. Periphery composed of
branched subdichotomous filaments.
;. Batra< bospI RMi m. Filaments hyaline, longitudinally
striated, eel frith distant vrhorla of monlifann ramnU.
87. DbaparnAldxa. Filaments hyaline, emitting leattered
pencili of coloured ramulL
B. Gloitm or looed,
88. Cn i i.>nmi: \. Frond gelatinous, globose, plans SB
Lobed, formed o/filameata issuing from the base.
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