Rhizoclonium riparium (Roth) Harv.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Maine

• Locality

  Penobscot Bay, Eagle Island, on perpendicular and overhanging cliffs

• Coordinates

  44.2111, -68.7781

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  1241.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of geogr. center of Eagle Island in Penobscot Bay. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the island to find linear extent (1230 m). Input info. into MaNIS Georef. Calc. to find uncert. rad. (Bounded Area).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

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Phycotheca Boreali-Americana. Collins, Holden, and Setchell.
24.	Rhizoclonium riparium (Roth.) Harv.
Harvey, Phyc. Brit., PI. CCXXXVIII.
Farlow, N. E. Marine Algae, p. 49, PI. Ill, fig. 2, 1881.
R. riparium a. polyrhizum Rosenvinge, Grönlands Havalger, p. 913,
fig. 32, 1893.
Growing in tufts on perpendicular and overhanging cliffs, to which
it is attached by the numerous rhizoidal branches, which are often of
several cells; it agrees quite well with Harvey’s plate, to which Rosen-
vinge refers, 1. c.
Eagle Island, Penobscot Bay, Maine, July, 1894.
F. S. COLLINS.
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