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Order ALGAE. 
Faminy BATRACHOSPERMEA:. 
tilet-purple o or r bluish- -green, cover rim ary filament 
of a single central series of cells, either furnished with densely con- 
globate tufts ue verticillate fascicles of br: 8, or 
BATRACHOSPERMUM, Roth. 
(Name derived from the Greek batrachos, a frog, and sperme.) 
allus moniliform, composed of a simple series of medullary 
ce ells, and a cortical accessory ¢ ies series, clothed with subglobosely 
<a Eipicles of branches 
B. Mmoniliforme, Roth. (Branches resembling necklaces.) From 
an =, to a foot in length, clothed with a more or less gelatinous 
mucus, violet-brownish, reddish- brown, eet or bluish-green, pro- 
fly ‘branched. Joints of the —_ Rig oblong or clavate, 
outer ones sometimes setigerous. Int naked, or furnished 
s 
ie scattered accessory branches. Cellules 20 to 22 x 10 p.— Cooke, 
io 
: Dunwich Pumping Station, Stradbroke Island, Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft. 
Mis seal plant is commonly met with in Europe and other parts in swamp 
By Authority: Jans C, Beat, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane. 
