Excerpt from Phycologia Australica, or a History of Australian Seaweeds, Vol. 4: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the More Characteristic Marine Algae of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia, and a Synopsis of All Known Australian Algae; Containing Plates 181-240 Gen. Char. Fraud cylindrical or plano-compressed, linear, pinnately branched, cartilaginous, the apices obtuse, composed of two strata of cells; the inner of oblong, angular cells, shorter toward the cir cumference; the outer of small, roundish-angular cellules. Fruit 1, ovate, sessile ceramidia, containing a tuft of pear-shaped spores; 2, tripartite tetraspores, imbedded, without order, beneath the tips of the ramull. - laurencia in honour of M. De La Laurencic, a French naturalist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.