BROWN SEAWEEDS OF THE SALT MARSH. 285 
thallus 10-16 cm., breadth 3-4 mm. Мо receptacles were found on any 
of the plants. The Fucus covered a large area of the marshes. 
In December 1910, in the marshes of the Blackwater, Mersea Island, Essex, 
near the spot where Hudson found his specimens, numerous plants, also of 
Ете. 6. 
Fucus volubilis as found at Mersea Island, Essex. The figure shows an old weather-worn 
specimen ; in many plants the tops of the shoots are entire. X 4. 
like habit, were found, but they did not densely cover the ground as at Hurst 
Castle. The plants were either embedded at one end in the mud and 
growing out of it in clusters on the banks of creeks, dc. (РІ. 8. fig. апа PI. 9. 
fig. 4), or entirely loose and tangled among the Aster plants. They seemed 
