- Asset ID
- 619
- Title
- Bostrychia scorpioides
- Credit
- Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
- KEYWORDS
- BM000772040
algae
alga
specimen
preserved
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Rhodophyta
red algae

619
Bostrychia scorpioides
A red seaweed found on European salt-marshes. This specimen was 'found in small washes of salt water, left by the ebb of tide – Wisbeach. 1797' – a landscape which has since been radically altered and is now some miles from the coast.