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THE SEAWEEDS 
Harvey says: “I have seen them both — C. hypnoides and C. Muelleri — 
growing abundantly on their native rocks, and can, at a glance, distinguish 
C. Muelleri by its much darker colour, more robust growth, more erect 
ramenta, and the less densely set and less finely divided scales of the 
creeping stems. A more definite character may be found in the ramenta, 
which, in C. hypnoides, are not merely connate at the base in pairs, but 
united for some distance above the base so as to be as distinctly forked as 
Fig. 28 . — Garulerpa Muelleri. 
in C. furcifolia. The magnified figures in Turner’s plate of C. hypnoides 
are not correct.” But J. G. Agardh says: "Harvey believed that he had 
found a chief distinction in the more basal forking of the ramenta in 
C. Muelleri. To me this difference seems less conspicuous.” 
The points of distinction seem to be to be trivial, nor can I find after 
examining numbers of specimens, that they are constantly associated. 1 
regard them as one species, the stouter dark green as the Mueller form, 
and the slender light green as the hypnoides typica form. Either can be 
fo,1,1 d anywhere on the xlustralian and Tasmanian coasts. 
