Field notebook : Massachusetts and Connecticut, 1890-1896
Page 207
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886. Oscillatoria forming films on water-plants + Muss - Below Factory Pond Dam 1887. Bangia, refly a Sea Side Park We examined this in the evening and found numerous filaments growing. A cell forms a number of spores which escape from a lateral protuberance (a crown) The spores frequently lodge and germinate on filaments of the Bangia giving in the appearance of branching.