Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NITELLA. 2. iV. opdca (Ag.) ; dioecious, st. slender flexible transparent, brancblets mucronate, fertile wborls usually dense, nucules 1— 3 together naked with 6 Uwit. prominent spires.—J. of B. xviii. t. 210.—Eatber slender, turning nearly black. Wborls with nucules dense, with globules usuaUy more lax.—Ponds and ditches. A. V. VI. E. S. I. 3. N. capitdta (Ag.); dia3cious, st. slender flexible transparent, brancblets mucronate, fertile wborls . . . . , nucudes with acute prominent spires and a mucilar/inous coatin;/.—Small, slender, yellowish brown.—Llyn Idwal, Caern. (teste A. Braun!). Stouting, Kent. A. Braun. Cornwall. A. Bennett. A. E. [A'', si/ncar'pa (Lutet); more slender than C. opaca with simple brancblets on the female plant, and nucules with a muci- laginous coating and faintly marked spires ; is probably a na- tive.] tt Brancblets repeatedly di\aded ; terminal segments of 2 or more cells, last usually lilte a mucro.—Moncecious. 4. N. translncens (Ag.) ; st. thick equal flexible transparent, last segments of branclilets of 2 or 3 cells, sterile brancblets only once divided (at the end) into 2—4 minute rays, nucules small usually in threes with 7 or 8 . spires.—E. B. 1851.—A very large plant. Sterile brancblets appear simple; the rays resemble minute points at their end.—Deep water. A. VIII. E. S. I. 5. N. mncrondta (Kiitz.) ; st. equal flexible transparent, brancblets nearly equally forked or trifid tipped with a minute acutely conical cell, nundes and globules together at the forkings of the brancblets.—^//. Fl. Par. 40.—Eatber thick. Dark green. Secondary brancblets once or twice forked, terminal subdivisions rather shorter than the others. Nucules with 7 or 8 spires.—Mar.sb-ditch near W. Grinstead, Suss. A. VII. E. 0. N. grac'ilis (Ag.); at. equal flexible transparent, slender Irranchlets in lax luhorls twice or thrice iKiarly equally forlicd their terminal segments 2- or ^-celled, strongly mucronate, nucules and globules each solitary but togetlier at the forkings of the branclilets.—7?. B. 2140. Atl. Fl. Bar. 41.—Veiy small and slender. Nucules subglobose with G or 7 spires.—St. Leonard's Forest, Suss. Glen Cullen, Co. Dublin. A. IX. E. I. 7. N. le.miis'simn (Kiitz.); st. equal flexible transparent, hranchle.ts in very dense compact sul)gl(ilu>se -whorls twice or thrice equally forked in 3—G segments of 2 or 3 colLs their terminal cell veiyslender and acute, nucules and globules each solitary but