The Nostochineæ are either an assemblage of cells loosely united into numerous green chaplets, or distinctly beaded filaments, generally twisted, and occasionally branched; they are imbedded in a firm gelatinous frond of different form, sometimes globular, sometimes spreading in branched masses, often of considerable size.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville
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