SARGASSUM TENERRIMUM J.Ag.' by C
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE-HISTORY OF SARGASSUM TENERRIMUM J.Ag.' BY C. SURYA PRAKASA RAO, M,Sc. (Lecturer in Botany, Andhra University, Guntar, lndta) Received November 8, 1945) (Communicated by Prof Y. Bharadwajl, Ms-'., P'l D (Lond), r.L.S, r s l, F.A.S:. INTRODUCTION NO contribution has yet been made towards the life-history of Indian Sargassums in spite of their relative abundance. The genus is one of the most conspicuous and common of the sea-weeds which one can see either washed ashore or growing attached to rocks below low-tide level along the east and west coasts of India. In 1848 J. Agardh described several species of Sarga~sum from this country (Specie~ Alga urn, Vol. 1, A:ga; F.tco/de; co,~,,p!,cte s, Land 1848) and in the following year R. K. G:eviile gave art account of fourtcen sp~'c,es ("Algm Orientalis--Desc'iption of new species belong;rig to th~ Ge:ms Sargassum.", Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hzst., S~r. 2. Vol. 3). B~rgesen (1933) also listed six of these species from Bombay in 1933 and one species from C~yIon in 1936. Th~,ywere: Sargassum tenerrimum J. Ag. (which h~ thinks syaony- mous with S. Campbellianum Greville), S. cinerum J. Ag. var. barberifolia Grun., S. Wightii (Grev. mscr.) J. Ag., S. ilici[olium (Ttlrn~ C. Ag., S. plagio- phyllum (Mort) J. Ag., S. myriocystum J. Ag., S. crist~,efolium C. Ag. Apart from a taxonomic description of Indian species of Sargassum, no attempt has been made to give a detailed account of any of them.
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