OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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PHYLLOSPORA C. Agardh. 
Attachment large, conico-hemispherical, composed of a large number of 
robust, simple, closely imbricating, obtuse processes, radiating from a 
central naked concave disc, from the middle of which starts the solitary 
stem. Frond 3 to 9 metres long, pinnately divided. Stem and branches 
Fig. 46 . — Carpoglossum confluens. 
strap-shaped, 6 to 12 mm. wide, densely beset throughout with scattered or 
crowded marginal leaves, intermixed with small ciliary processes that may 
develop into leaves. Leaves 10 to 15 cm. long and 2 to 12 mm. wide, 
tapering to each end, more or less coarsely toothed. Vesicles elliptical to 
2.5 cm. long, bearing a terminal leaflet. Fruit-leaves similar but shorter. 
Conceptacles numerous, immersed, dioecious. Oogonia monosporous. 
