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THE SEAWEEDS 
SCABERIA Greville. 
Frond dendroid, irregularly branched, having stem, leaves, and vesicles 
as distinct organs, but no special receptacles. Leaves peltate, fleshy, 
warted externally, spirally inserted round the stem. Vesicles formed from 
an inflated leaf and inserted as the leaves. Conceptacles immersed in the 
leaves, hermaphrodite. Oogonia monosporous. 
Fig. 45 . — Phyllospora como&a. 
Scaberia Agardhii Greville. 
The only species with the characters of the genus. It grows several feet 
high, and is of a very dark brown colour, darkening when dry. It, grows 
from low water mark to 10 to 20 fathoms. 
Western and South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand. There 
Is a fine bed alongside the Causeway to Granite Island, South Australia. 
