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CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUEENSLAND FLORA. 
QUEENSLAND FRESHWATER ALG. 
Class I. PLORIDEGZ, Ag. 
Faminy BATRACHOSPERMACEZ. 
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violet, or violet-purple or bluish-green, covered with mucous ; are | 
ment and branches composed of a single central series of cells, an 
ard covered with simple or forked branches. Vegetation terminal. 
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The following note is also from Dr.-Cooke’s excellent work, l. er 
Professor Horatio Wood has abstracted so well what is er : ; 
the Teproductive process in the Batrachosperms that we canno : . 
uote his observations in full: ‘ Frequently in we 
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According to 
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Protoplasm, which is remarkable for the very numerous bright granules 
Which it contains, They occur’ either scattered or in gro 
gonig” ensformed into female organs, to which the name of “ tricho- 
ing thos *pPlied. | : 
of Me ant eridia. At first they are not markedly different from the 
