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plant will remain on it, in the same shape it had in the water. Place 
the paper on a sloping board to drain for a short time; then lay on 
drying paper, specimen up; when no more specimens can be placed 
on the drier, cover all very carefully with a cotton cloth of the same 
size as the drier. Another drier, more specimens, another cloth, and 
so on indefinitely. 
The whole then to be pressed, the same as flowering plants. 
Driers should be changed after perhaps an hour; then less and less 
frequently, though oftener than is usual with flowering plants. Cloths 
should not usually be changed; by reversing the pile, the cloth with 
all the specimens on it can be readily shifted. Drying paper to be the 
same as used for flowering plants, the heavier the better; for delicate 
algae heavy blotting paper is rather better, but more expensive. For 
mounting paper any sufficiently strong kind can be used; standard 
herbarium paper is excellent; it can be bought ready cut, in full 
sheets, half, quarter and eighth sizes, which give all usually needed. 
Ordinary cotton cloth, preferably rather fine, should be used; old is 
better than new; worn sheets and pillow-cases are as good as anything 
that can be had. j 
When thoroughly dry, most species of algae will adhere firmly to 
paper; those that continue unattached should be fastened by a little 
glue. 
A special shallow pan, with sheet of perforated zinc for supporting 
paper and specimen; brushes and needles for arranging the latter 
(in emergency a hairpin is useful) ; a water-proof bag hung by a strap 
over the shoulder; wide-mouth bottles or preserve jars for keeping 
delicate plants; knives; scrapers; nets; allthese are convenient, and 
will be found described, with other appliances, in the books just named ; 
and any collector will soon invent or adapt such contrivances as best 
meet his wants. 
In taking up the second subject, that of special localities, if we 
begin at the New York and Connecticut line, we find a shore of sand, 
gravel and boulders, but no rocky coast. This character continues 
over practically the whole coast of the mainland till we reach Cohasset, 
Mass. Almost everywhere in Long Island Sound, plants grow from 
low-water mark down; great quantities are sometimes washed ashore 
by a storm, and in any case when an annual matures, it can be found 
floating. By wading in shallow bays and lagoons, one can get such 
plants as Agardhiella tenera, Gracilaria multipartita, and several 
