Cordylecladia peasiae Collins

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ţfronds slender, filiform, arising from a more or less dis-
tinct crustaceous "base, dichotomously divided, with occasional
scattered or secund ramuli, usually quitfe"'short. Tetraspores
cruciate, in the somewhat swollen' and darkened tips of the "bran-
ches and ramuli, immersed in the cortical layer. Oystocarps
globular, sessile along the main "branches. Color purplish "brown,
changing into whitish or greenish; substance rigid.
Somewhat resembles ,3. ereota. which is however, a smaller ?
plant, much less "branched, and having the receptacles fbr tetra^
spores in densely tufted special lateral "branches. ,0. irregularis
is stouter, with hollow stems and with oval or subspherical lat-
eral "branches for the tetraspores. In 0. furcellata the tetrasp-
ores are "borne in "branches resembling tHe vesicles of Chrysymenia
uvaria. 0,. heteroc^ada has a flat frond, and C_. Huntii is unre-
cognizable from the description of Harvey.
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