Images of algae all arted up and much prettier than what’s at the bottom of the pond. Taken from Kintaro Okamura’s 1911 work “Icones of Japanese algae”.

Plates (llustrations) from books 1 Minute
Ceratodictyon spongiosum Zanard. Plate LI from Icones of Japanese algae. Kintaro Okamura, author. Published in 1911. Collections of and digitalizing sponsor the Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1251055#page/12/mode/1up
Martensia elegans Hering. Plate LIII from Icones of Japanese algae. Kintaro Okamura, author. Published in 1911. Collections of and digitalizing sponsor the Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1251055#page/20/mode/1up
Herpopteros Zonaricola Okam. Plate LV from Icones of Japanese algae. Kintaro Okamura, author. Published in 1911. Collections of and digitalizing sponsor the Marine Biological Laboratory – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1251055#page/32/mode/1up

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