The Diatomaceæ of Philadelphia and Vicinity — John Shaqi
The Diatomaceæ of Philadelphia and VicinityBoyer, Charles S. (Charles Sumner)
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The Diatomaceæ of Philadelphia and Vicinity
Boyer, Charles S. (Charles Sumner)
Diatoms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Blue clay. Very rare.
Pl. 3, Fig. 6.
{28}EUPODISCUS EHR. (1844)
(eu, well, pous, a foot, and discus)
Valve circular, 45-117 µ in diam. (De Toni). Central space absent, surface
plane with angular cells. At the border short, circular processes or
ocelli.
EUPODISCUS RADIATUS BAIL.
Valve with radiating hexagonal cells, sometimes slightly curved toward the
large ocelli inserted near the border which are hyaline at the centre.
Border wide, coarsely striate.
The number of ocelli heretofore recorded is four. Specimens with five
processes are found in the artesian well at St. Augustine, Fla., and in
material at Twelfth and Brandywine Sts. Mr. Hugo Bilgram has discovered
valves with three and six ocelli.
Not common in the blue clay, but abundant along the southern coast of the
Atlantic states and the Gulf of Mexico.
Not Eupodiscus radiatus Wm. Sm, which is Biddulphia smithii (Ralfs) V. H.
Pl. 5, Fig. 3.
AULISCUS EHR. (1843)
(aulax, a furrow, referring to the grooves in certain species, according to
De Toni, but preferably from auliscos, a small reed, referring to the
processes?)
Frustule cylindrical; zone with longitudinal rows of fine puncta. Valve
circular or elliptical, plane except near the processes; central area
hyaline, usually circular. Markings of two kinds, granules radiating or
scattered and radiating, costate lines, prominent or indistinct. Processes,
two or three, large, short, cylindrical, with hyaline surface, near the
ends of the major axis in a line oblique to it.
Auliscus is divided by Rattray into fourteen sections, defined chiefly by
the character and arrangement of the markings. About eighty species are
described, but as many of the forms are fossil, occuring in the Miocene of
California, Oamaru and elsewhere, and as so few species are found in this
locality, I shall refer but briefly to this division.
_Striolati._--No transverse median areas, striæ
inconspicuous punctatus
_Lineolati._--Markings distinct, pruinose, interrupted pruinosus
_Costati._--Transverse median areas usually distinct, sculptus
markings continuous, costate cælatus
AULISCUS PUNCTATUS BAIL.
Valve broadly elliptical, or suborbicular, covered with delicate
interrupted striæ radiating in sinuous lines to the circumference, more
evident on the transverse median area; puncta 3 in 10 µ, grouped into a
rounded area on each side of the median line, elsewhere scattered. Central
space rounded, processes two, large, suborbicular.
Port Penn, Delaware River. Rare.
Pl. 5, Fig. 6.
AULISCUS PRUINOSUS BAIL.
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