HISTOIfTCAL KEYIEW OF THE FLORIDE.E 200 



an old block woodcut with this title in Lobelius (157G) ^ does duty 

 as late as the time of Parkinson (1640) -, ultimately ai^iDcaring as 

 the ' Red Coralline ' of the tide-pools, though originally intendecf for 

 a softer moss-type, probably Ceramium ruhrum. A figure of Coral- 

 Una in Gerard (1597) ^ is j^robably the oldest recognizable figure of 

 a Floridean type. 



A few Florideae are thus included by Dillenius^ in the Ilisforia 

 ]\Iusco?'um (1741) as Conferva. Linnaeus 5, in the first edition of 

 the Species Plantarum (1753) has only a poor show 6. In later 

 times the larger British species are described by Dawson Turner in the 

 Icones et Hist. Fucorum (1808-1819) : the smaller ones in Dillwyn's 

 British Conferv(B (1809) ; cf. also Esper (1797) " and Stackhouse 

 (1795-1801) Nereis Brifannica. The convention of Fucus and 

 Conferva died hard ; the definition of the latter had been given by 

 LinnfBUs as Alga capillaris, and according to Dillwyn ^ it included 

 Polj^siphonias, Ceramiums, and even JDasya coccinea ; yet Goodenough 

 and Woodward^ (1795) included as Fuci such plants as Boli/si- 

 2)honia hyssoides, BostrycMa, and Bonnemaisonia. 



The history of the Florideae as a class begins with the separation 

 of the group under this special name by Lamoueoux (1813) i^ ; the 

 eleven genera — Glaiidea, Delesseria, Ghondrus, Oelidiumy Laurencia, 

 Sypneay Acantlioplioray Dumontia, Giyartina, Plocamium, and 

 Champia, are localized under the heading Florideae, although the 

 colour-guide was still a little vague ; Furcellaria was left with the 

 Fucaceae from its dark colour, and Amansia, as presenting a ' net- 

 work ' surface, Avith the Dictyotaceae. Lyngbye ii added genera, as 

 Lomentaria and CalUthamnion, but had the genera all mixed up on 

 a system of his own ; the Florideae not being separated from Brown 

 Algae : the idea did not make Avay at once ; the colour-guide was 

 treacherous. C. Agardh ^", it is true, retains the order ' Florideai ' 



^ Lobelius (Antwerp, 1576), Stirpium Historia, p. 648. 



'■^ Parkinson (London, 1640), Theatrum Botanicum, p. 1296. 



■^ Gerard (London, 1597), Herball, p. 1379, Corallina anglica. 



^ Dillenins (Oxford, 1741), Historia Muscorum, 48 forms of Conferva, of 

 which 10 may be Floridean, p. 32, including Lemanea and Batrachospermum. 



5 Linngeus (Holmiae, 1753), Species Plantarum, pp. 1162, 1166. 



^ Fucus {Rhodymenia) palmatiis, F. (PhyllopJiora) rubens, F. {Furcellaria) 

 fastigiatus, and Conferva corallinoides, C. catenata, C. polymorplia : as marine 

 forms not including Lemanea and Batracliosperm.iim taken from Dillenius. 



' Esper (Niirnberg, 1797), Icones Fucorum. 



8 Dillwyn (1809), British Confervas, nos. 58, 44, 36. 



^ Goodenough and Woodward (1797), Linn. Trans, iii. p. 84, nos. 72, 70. 



^^ Lamouroux (Paris, 1813), JEssai sur les Genres cle la Famille des Thalassio- 

 jyhytes, p. 75. In this paper Lamouroux introduced the custom, since much 

 abused, of naming genera after his botanical friends. The idea of so commemo- 

 rating botanists of repute had been initiated in scientific botany by Father 

 Plumier (Nova plantarum Americanum Genera, Paris, 1703), who in his need 

 for new names for numerous North American genera, so utiHzed the names of 

 about 60 ' Patres Botanici,' from Theophrastus (Eresius) to Eay and Dillenius ; 

 practically the whole of which are still retained. The science has grown up 

 with the elegant Gallicized forms as Claudea, Champia, Amansia, Dumontia, 

 Delesseria, Laurencia, and future generations may assimilate Proto-Kuetzingia, 

 Schmitziella, and Heterojnnczevs'kia. 



'' Lyngbye (Copenhagen, 1819), Tentamen Hydrophytologix Danicgs. 



'■■^ C. Agardh (Lund, 1824), Systema Algarum. 



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