A COLLECTION OF TWENTY BOTANICAL SPECIMENS OF SEAWEED, Mid...

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A COLLECTION OF TWENTY BOTANICAL SPECIMENS OF SEAWEED, Mid 19th Century, from North of England Coasts, each inscribed with Latin names comprising: - Laminaria saccharina (Saltburn rocks: low water mark, August 1878) - Laminaria phyllitis (kelp) - Nitophyllum Gmelini (fine) - Laurencia pinnatifida (with growth of zoophyte) - Schizymenia edulis (with Porphyra growing parasitically) - Callophyllis laciniata (winter form) - Maugeria sanguinea - Maugeria sanguinea (young) - Enteromorpha compressa - Dumontia filiformis (Dumont's tubular weed) - Ceranium rubrum - Fucus serratus (wrack) - Callophyllis laciniata - Porphyra vulgaris - Odonthalia dentata (toothed wrack) - Desmarestia viridis (Desmatet's green weed) - Dictyota dichotoma - Nitophyllum laceratum (var.) - Punctaria latifolia - Dasya Coccinea of various sizes (20)