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rows. The colour is brownish-purple, becoming much browner or even 
blackish in drying. The substance is firmly membranous; and the plant 
shrinks and adheres imperfectly to paper. This handsome plant is very 
closely related to the L. spectabilis of West Australia, from which it chiefly 
differs in having a more decidedly caulescent frond, with more strongly 
ribbed phyilodia. 
South Australia (Encounter Bay, Eastern Bays), Victoria, Tasmania.. 
Fig. 142 . — Lenormandia Muelleri: a, plant; b, portion 
of a phyllodium; c, section of a phyl- 
lodium; d, a ceramidium; e, spores and 
paranemata. (After Harvey.) 
Lenormandia spectabilis Bonder. 
= Lenormandia latifolia Harvey. 
Attachment or holdfast a small disc. Frond originating in, or wholly 
consisting of, an oblong lamina, transversed by a very slender midrib, which 
becomes fainter upwards ; very variable in breadth, being from 2 cm. wide 
in the narrowest, 10 cm. to 15 cm. wide in the broadest specimens. From 
the primary leaf there issue proliferously, either from its disc or margin, 
numerous similar fronds, and these bear others with similar irregularity, 
and thus a very compound and often densely imbricated frond is 
RATIONAL HERBARIUM OF YICIORIA 
