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22b Branching not dichotomous, but multiiarious. Fig. 37 



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Figure 37 



Fig. 37. Branching habit of Gracilariopsis 



A. Part of a sterile plant of a Gracilariopsis species to show the 

 irregular, multifarious branching of the slender, cylindrical thallus, 

 X 1. B. Part of a fertile, cystocarpic plant of Gracilariopsis sjoestedtii 

 (Kylin) Dawson showing the cylindrical form, the protruding, subhemi- 

 spherical cystocarps, and the irregular, multifarious branching. See 

 also comments at Fig. 39. 



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