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ENTEROMORPHA INTESTINALIS, L in k .
G e n . Ch a r . Frond tu b u la r, m embrana ceous, of a g re en colour and re tic u la
te d s tru c tu re . Fructifioation •, g ran u le s, commonly in fours, conta
in e d in tb e cellules of th e fro n d . E nteromoepha {L in k .),—from
cvrepov, a u entrail, an d gop4>n, fo rm or appearance.
E nteromoepha in te stin a lis; fronds perfectly simple, elongated, becoming
inflated, obtuse, tapering extremely to the base.
ENTEEOMOEPHAintestinalis, Link. Hor.Fltys. Ber. p. 5. Grev. Aly. Brit. p. 179.,
Hook. Brit. FI. vol. ii, p. 313. Harv. in Mack. FI. H ii. part 3. p. 242.
Harv. Man. p. 174. Wyatt, Alg. Lanm. no. 80. E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2756.
KiiU. Phyc. p. 300.
SoLENiA intestinalis, Ag. Syst. Alg. p. 185. Spr. Syst. Veg. vol. iv. p. 367.
SoLENiA Bertohni, Ag. Syst. p. 185. Spr. Syst. Veg. vol. iv. p. 367.
ScYTOSlPHON intestinalis, Lyngb. Hyd. Dan. p. 67.
E istu la eia intestinalis, Grev. FI. Edin. p. 800.
I lea intestinalis, Gaill. Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. 53. p. 373.
T eteaspoea intestinalis, Desv. El. Angers, p. 17-
U lya intestinalis, lin n . Huds. El. Ang. p. 568. Lightf. El. Scot. p. 968.
A g .S y n .g .4 6 . Ag. Sp. Alg.^oX.i. g. 413. Hook.FI. Scot.gxA 2. g. 91.
Conpeeva intestinalis, Both. Cat. Bot. vol. i. p. 159.
H ab. Attached to various substances in the sea, between tide-marks; also
in brackish and fresh-water ditches near the coast. Often floating.
Aimual. Summer. Yery common.
Geogk. D is t e . In similar situations, in most parts of the world.
De sc e . Boot a minute, scutate disc. Frond from a few inches to one or more
feet in length, and from a line to three or fom- inches, or more iu diameter,
tubular, obtuse, tapering at base to little more than the diameter of hog’s
bristle, gradually becoming inflated upwards, and in old age often swelling
out into a large membranous bag, wliich is variously crisped and curled.
Sometimes the whole frond is compressed, and very much crisped. Substance
thin and membranous, but not gelatinous, not closely adhering to
paper iu diying. Colour varying from a transparent yellowish green, to a
fuU grass-green ; in old age and decay fading to a dirty white. Under the
microscope, a portion of the frond exhibits the appearance of a transparent
membrane, covered with green, unequal, angular ceUs.
A very common shore plant in all parts of the world, extending
from the limits of vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere through
all intervening latitudes to a similar point in the south; and
inhabiting not merely the sea, but brackish, or even fresh-water,
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