1901] Huntington,— Webera proligera in Amesbury 9I 
mangrove swamp. It was discovered by the sense of feeling as we 
were digging in the mud among the eel grass roots for Caulerpa. We 
were continually feeling through the thick soles of our heavy rubber 
boots, a sensation as of stepping on drowned kittens. With fear and 
trembling we put our hands down to investigate, and pulled up the 
curious fleshy weed somewhat resembling a downy, swollen Udotea. 
The plants harbored numerous worms and other small sea animals. 
At Port Antonio was our happy hunting ground in 1894, a coral 
reef running out from the base of a steep bluff. The water was 
extremely shallow out some distance. Perhaps we had half an acre of 
safe wading. We did not consider it safe to wade where we could not 
see the bottom, owing to sharks, octopi, etc. At this place we waded 
out to where the surface was jagged and rocky, the water about to 
our waists. At this depth we found Caulerpa clavifera growing like 
lovely little clusters of green grapes, in big soggy masses. Here also 
were clumps of all those limy things, Hadimedas, Amphiroas, Galax- 
auras, Cymopolias, etc. They followed inshore, and with them upon 
the rocks were those green, warty, potato-ball-like Dictyosphaerias. 
Nearer the shore the water flattened out to nothing, and the bottom 
was sand, like powdered shells. Most of the plants mentioned 
dropped out, but Caulerpa ericifolia and C. plumaris covered the 
bottom, as club mosses grow in the woods. Such a pretty sight! 
Day after day we searched this reef for the ** Mermaid's Shaving 
brush " you had told us we would most likely find, but were giving 
up in despair, and were leaving the water for the last time when just 
at the shore, the water barely deep enough to cover them, I noticed 
peculiar little raised mounds in the sand. With my foot I brushed 
them over and revealed the Penicillus capitatus, so long searched for. 
They grew as abundantly as seedling evergreens in a neglected 
Maine pasture lot, and we hastily brushed the sand aside and 
gathered as many as we could carry. 
WEBERA PROLIGERA IN AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS. — I have 
been much interested of late in the study of those mosses which 
do not multiply themselves alone by the agency of spores, but by 
means of vegetative growths serving the same purpose. It is aston- 
ishing how abundant these plants will become in regions where it is 
almost impossible to find the least sign of fruit. There is a small 
brook in this town about a mile in length, flowing through sandy land 
