OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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Forms with looser and forked ramenta have been separated by some 
authors as C. furcifolia Harvey, but the species is very variable in size 
and in the shape of the ramenta; it grows in shallow water, the surculi 
often in tangled masses. 
Distribution. — Western Australia: Albany. South Australia: Great 
Australian Bight, Investigator Straits, and Encounter Bay. Victoria : 
Whole Coast. Tasmania and New Zealand. 
Fig. 24 . — Gaulerpa Browmi. (Stouter form.) 
Section Araucarioideae. 
Larger forms, with stout cylindrical erect axes, bearing mostly opposite 
distichous branches; surculus, trunk and branches densely ramentaceous. 
Caulerpa Hedleyi Weber van Bosse. 
Surculus squamulose, the squamuli compacted, repeatedly dichotomous, 
almost quadripartite, with bifurcate and mucronate apices. Trunks of 
fronds erect, with opposite patent branches; trunk and branches beset 
