43 

 description ot Cladophorops^s membranacea mo.Uy based upon 



Fig '>8 Cladophoropsis memlranacea 

 (Ag.) Borgs. 



Summit of filaments in ^^i«^';*^';;t ^^f ^^^f 

 seo-regative cell-division. Compaie text. 

 " " (About 15:11 



loose upon the bottom. It consists 

 of much ramified filaments twisted 

 together (Fig. 26). The filaments in- 

 crease by apical growth. 



The ramification is very irregular. 

 Sometimes a branch divides itself into 

 Fig. 27. Cladophoropsis several cells from which side branches, 

 Par^rrrJ™!:' f^oS m mostly unilaterally arranged, gr;.w out 

 tli° mi'ldle a rhiioid. and these branches (.comp. Fig. 2 



I About 8:1). ^^g ^]] „pf,riy at the same point ol 



development, though often the uppermost branches are the most 

 deve lo ed ■ sometimes a filament tor a long distance is not at all 

 brlnched (Figs. 26 and 27); often also new filaments grow out 

 from older parts of the thallus. 



