Language: Chinese with scientific nomenclature and bilingual foreword, keys, and figure captions in English and Chinese
Flora Algarum Marinarum Sinicarum, Tomus 4: Chlorophyta No. 2 introduces five orders of Chinese marine green algae in the taxon Chlorophyta. There are 10 families, 29 genera, 120 species and 3 varieties and 5 forms of Phylocladales, Piriphyllophyles, Pteridophyles, Pleurophytes and Vertechophytes. Order, family, and genus have descriptions of morphological characteristics, each with their scientific name and/or synonyms, available research literature, reports on morphology, structure, and reproductive structure, habitat, place of origin, and geographical distribution, etc. There are 123 pictures, and there are outline drawings of 30 species at the end of the book. This volume also includes bilingual keys to orders, families, genera, and species, as well as references and indexes in Chinese and English.
Summary in Chinese:
《中国海藻志.第四卷.绿藻门.第二册,管枝藻目 海松藻目 蕨藻目 羽藻目 绒枝藻目》介绍了我国海洋绿藻门绿藻纲的五个目:管枝藻目、海松藻目、蕨藻目、羽藻目和绒枝藻目,共收入10科29属120种及3变种和5变型。目、科、属都有形态特征的描述,每种都有中名、学名及/或异名,文献考证,形态、构造及生殖结构,生境,产地及地理分布等报道,并附有形态解剖图123幅,书末有30个种的外形图版。《中国海藻志.第四卷.绿藻门.第二册,管枝藻目 海松藻目 蕨藻目 羽藻目 绒枝藻目》还包括目、科、属、种的中文及种的英文检索表,以及主要的参考文献和索引。