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CRYPTOGAMIA,; OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. 
Cass. Lo..: Alge, 
The Algee include some of the smallest and simplest 
forms of vegetable life, rising in other instances to a high 
degree of organisation and considerable dimensions. Some 
Fic. 380.—Caulerpa taxtfolia, a marine Unicellular Alga (natural size). 
species of Palmel/a have a diameter of only ‘ooot to ‘0002 
mm., while A/acrocystzs attains a’ength of 300 metres or more, 
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