RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Greville, Scottish cryptogamic flora. vol 4: 231. CUL-DAR31.320a. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2025. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

Robert Kaye Greville. 1825-1826. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora. vol. 1. Edinburgh.


320a

Vol IV p. 231 Greville Scottish Cryptogam Flora

describes — balls, fine garnet colour, exact sphærical nearly opake sited on substratum of gelatinous matter; for most nearly equal in size. = Smaller ones generally surrounded by pellucid limb, gradually becomes less as globules increase in size.— in full sized specimen internal surface appears granulated, from contained granules; granules 6-8 in number globose. capsule left floating after bursting of sclera.—


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