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of its multinucleate character to guide us in 

 assigning it a position here. The numerous species 

 have been carefully examined without the discovery 



d 



c 



FIG. 32. a, Caulerpa ligulata natural size ; 6, C. Holmesiana natural size ; 

 c, transverse, and d, longitudinal section of stem, highly magnified. 



of any reproductive organs, which alone could show 

 us its true position among the siphoneous Alga3. 

 By an error there has been described a genus 



