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Fig. 2. A rare Nitella and a common Char a of Fiji. 1-5, Nitella furcata. 1, Habit, X 1- 2-4, Apices of 
sterile branchlets showing ultimate furcation into 2-celled dactyls (there being variously 2, 1, and 4 dactyls 
shown) subtended by peripheral nodal cells; 2 and 3 X 130, 4 X 86. 5, Two-furcate sterile branchlet with 
a short 2-celled dactyl at the 1st furcation and abbreviated terminal dactyls, X 12. 6—7, Char a corallina (dio- 
ecious strain, earlier C. australis). 6, Branchlet whorl of $ thallus, showing well-developed stipulodes and 
the bract-cells at the lowest and 2nd (in center two branchlets) nodes, X 10. 7, Habit of sterile thallus, X 1. 
(1—5 From spec, a; 6—7 from spec, j.) 
