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the branches and ramuli are pointed and not at all hooked in. The 
tetraspores of this species are produced in the dark coloured joints ; 
and what is also very remarkable, they are sometimes found on the 
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Fie. 177. Ramuli showing favelle of (a) C. Deslongchampsit. 
(b) C. diaphanum. 
(cd) C. nodosum. 
same specimen which bears favelle. This plant belongs to the section, 
Diaphana, which is beautifully represented by a slightly enlarged branch 
of the elegant species C. diaphanum at Fig. 178. All the stems and 
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Fic. 178. Ceramiwim diaphanwm. 
branches of this justly admired plant, are marked at regular intervals 
with fine pink or purplish red nodes, the colourless interspaces being of 
a delicate silvery texture, all of which become shorter and smaller as 
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