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E C H IN E L L A p a r a d o x a .
Golden Echinella.
C lass a n d Ordbh CRYPOGAMIA ALGÆ, L tm — N a t . Ord. C H Æ T 0 P H 0 R 0 ID EÆ ,
Grev.—ALGffi, Juss. De Cand.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Corpuscula minuta, subgelalinosa, sparsa, vel in massa densa congesta, sessilia
vel slipitala, subhyalina, granulis coloratis internis.
Minute gelatinous bodies, scattered or crowded into a dense mass, sessile or
stipitate, subhyaline, and containing coloured granules.
S PE C IF IC CHARACTER.
E c h in e l l a paradoxa ; jd is aggregatis, contmuis, rigidis, tenuissimis, ramosis,
apicibus dilatatis subbinatimque cuneiformibus, (Lyngb.)
E. threads crowded, even, rigid, very slender, branched, summits dilated,
wedge-shaped, subbinate.
E c h i n e l l a , paradoxa, Lyng. Tent. Hydroph. Dan. p. 211. t. 70.— Grev. Fl.
Fdin. ined.
H ab. On various marine plants, as the filiform Ulvæ, many Hutchinsiæ, &c.
in small pools left by the sea. Near Kirkcaldy in May 1820. Black
Rocks at Leith, and opposite Caroline Park, abundantly, in company
with Mr Walker A rnott, March 1821.
Excessively minute, but sufficiently visible to the naked eye, from the fine
yellow colour of the fringe it forms at th e edge, or round the stems o f
various marine plants, particularly Ulva purpurascens. Stems filiform,
extremely fine, transparent, continuous, branched, scarcely half a line in
height, irregular, each branch terminating in a wedge-shaped body, yellow,
and containing several granules towards the centre. The edges of
the wedge-shaped bodies are sometimes involute, which at first sight is
liable to give them the appearance of being distinctly marginated.
The public is here presented with another of those extraordinary
plants, particularly .noticed in a preceding number,
1 .16. The present species is very elegant, both in form and
colour, and by no means rare. When the sun shines, its fine
yellow ifinge is very conspicuous, if the eye is directed towards
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