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THE red alga Dilsea edulis (natural order, Cryptonemiales; family, Dumontiaceæ) has recently been shown to yield a mucilage which consists of a galactan sulphuric ester containing two SO3H groups and one uronic acid lactone residue associated with nine galactose residues. The linkages of the galactose residues are predominantly 1 : 3; but about one in every five is linked 1 : 41,2.
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DILLON, T., McKENNA, J. Mucilage of Dumontia incrassata. Nature 165, 318 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165318a0
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