A History of the British Freshwater Algæ: Including Descriptions of the Desmideæ and Diatomaceæ ...Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852 - Algae |
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Agardh Alga Algæ Annals of Nat appear Appin Ashdown Forest Batrachospermum Bory branches Brit capsule Carm Carmichael Cells usually centre Char Chara Cheshunt Closterium Coccochloris Conf Conferva conjugation Cosmarium Cross in Hand curved Desmid Desmidea diameter Diatoma Dickie Dillw Dolgelly Draparnaldia Ehrenberg elongated end view endochrome Euastrum extremity filaments Flor freshwater Frond front view frustules gelatinous genera genus globules granules green colour Grev Hæmatococcus Harv Harvey Hass Hassall Hist Hook Infus Jenner Kütz Kützing length Linnæa lobed long as broad Lyngbya Manual margin membrane Menegh Meneghini Mesocarpus Micrasterias microscope moniliform mucous Navicula Nostoc Nostoc commune observed Oscillatoria Palmella Pediastrum Penzance plant Plate pond Ralfs ramuli reproduction resemblance Scytonema Segments slender specimens spherical spiral Sporangia Sporangia oval sporangium spores Stratum striæ striated Sussex threads tubes tufts Tunbridge Tyndaridea Vauch Vaucher Vaucheria vesicles Vesiculifera whorls zoospores Zygnema
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Page 67 - ... makes us capable of virtue and vice, of rewards and punishments, shall be busied and employed in contemplating the works of God, and observing the divine art and wisdom manifested in the structure and composition of them ; and reflecting upon their great Architect the praise and glory due to him. Then shall we clearly see, to our great satisfaction and admiration, the ends and uses of these things which here were either too subtle for us to penetrate and discover, or too remote and unaccessible...
Page 67 - His wisdom, power, and goodness manifested in the creation of them. I am sure it is part of the business of a Sabbath-day, and the Sabbath is a type of that eternal rest; for the Sabbath seems to have been first instituted for a commemoration of the works of the creation, from which God is said to have rested upon the seventh day.
Page 67 - It is not likely that eternal life shall be a torpid and unactive state, or that it shall consist only in an uninterrupted and endless act of love; the other faculties shall be employed as well as the will, in actions suitable to, and perfective of their natures; especially the understanding, the supreme faculty of the soul, which chiefly differenceth...
Page 266 - ... surrounded with a red border of many feet in depth. I removed from the water some specimens, with glasses, and carried them to a tent which I had near the sea. It was easy to see that the colouration was due to little tufts, scarcely visible, often greenish, and sometimes of an intense green, but for the most part of a deep red; the water upon which they floated was always colourless. This very interesting phenomenon, sufficient to afford a reason for the etymology of the name which this sea...
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Page 254 - arises from the filaments being collected together into little ascending tufts, apparently rooted in the muddy deposit of the water. Each tuft proves, on examination, to consist of simple, reniform, even filaments, crowded together, and quite pellucid and equally destitute of joints and branches ; their diameter is not more than an eighth or ten thousandth part of an inch.
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