Note: Laminaria is the common kelp of Great Britain; Macrocystis pyrifera and Nereocystis Lutkeana are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean.
Defn: A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.
While there is a general tendency in the group to mucilaginous degeneration of the cell-wall, in Laminaria digitata there are also glands secreting a plentiful mucilage.
Thus Laminaria digitata, which characterizes the lowest zone, is only occasionally exposed at all, and then only for short periods of time.
The intercalated growing region of Laminaria affords an example of another variety of growth in Phaeophyceae.
A white efflorescence which appears on certain Brown Algae (Saccorhiza bulbosa, Laminaria saccharina), when they are dried in the air, is found to consist of mannite.
The ear is again carefully cleansed, and if possible a larger laminaria tent is substituted.
After cleansing the meatus, a small laminaria tent is inserted through the stricture, and if the pain is not too severe it is left in situ for at least twenty-four hours and then withdrawn.
Tupelo tents are larger than laminaria and expand more rapidly.
Such methods as attempts to destroy the growth by means of the galvano-cautery or by the pressure of laminaria tents should be avoided; they are useless and unsurgical.
There was a gigantic flag, six yards long, of rich sienna brown with a fringe of pink, covered with white spots, laminaria saccharina, or sea hanger.
These rocks are bronzed by masses of golden gelatine, laminaria bulbosa, and fucus canaliculatus.
At the base of the huge mass, at a level to which the tide rarely falls, the characteristic vegetable is the rough-stemmed tangle--Laminaria digitata.
In the zone immediately above the lowest, the prevailing vegetable is the smooth-stemmed tangle--Laminaria saccharina.
Almost immediately after, the waving streamers of laminaria were extraordinarily perturbed, parted for a moment, and three of these beasts became darkly visible, struggling for what was probably some fragment of the drowned man.
Mr. Fison has since described to the writer this startling eruption out of the waving laminaria meadows.
They are popularly known as tangle or oarweeds, and the stems of Laminaria saccharina and the midrib of Alaria esculenta are used as food.
Stems of Laminariathrown out by the waves should also be carefully examined.
The most effective method of collecting the plants of deeper water is by dredging, or going round with a boat at the extreme ebb, and taking them from the rocks and from the Laminaria stems, on which a great number have their station.
One more difficulty must be referred to for the benefit of young beginners, who, in mounting some of the Laminaria and that peculiar olive weed called Himanthalia lorea, may wish to preserve the thick-branching roots and stems.
The Laminaria saccharina is interesting from the fact of its containing sugar.
It is found on rocks and Laminaria stems beyond the tide-marks, but is commonly washed up on the beach during storms.
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