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Neither had we the good fortune to find specimens of 

 either of the Clavellosas, pretty weeds of a delicate pink 

 hue and watery texture. Their name is in allusion to 

 the golden hue the plants assume when steeped in fresh 

 water. 



Of the weed which we used to call " Crab's claws" we 

 found plenty, both washed on to the shore, and growing 

 in tide pools (Chylocladia articulata, Plate II., fig. 5). 

 It has a thick round branched frond, drawn in to a very 

 small size every few lines, so as to represent joints or articu- 

 lations. It was very difficult to press for it would not 

 lie as we wished it, and if we pressed it too much we 

 crushed it. Edward found very large specimens of this 

 on the Cornish coast last February, and also of the oval 

 species (C. ovalis), where oval leaves are attached to a 

 thickened stem. He got the C. kaliformis also ; it is 

 gelatinous and fleshy like the articulated species, but the 

 stem is not tied in as if jointed. There are two other 

 species which we have neither of us found. 



Leaving these rocks we pursued our way towards Corrie 

 by the road which lay between the shore and a strip of 

 marshy ground bordered inland by another line of rocks. 

 Upon this marsh belated flowers of the Pale Butterwort 

 were still blooming amid masses of the Slender Bog- 

 moss. 



The rocks forming the shore at Corrie are higher than 

 those at Brodick, and the rock pools are larger and 

 deeper. Many of these were carpeted with the common 

 Coralline which was violet coloured in the deepest pools, 

 and varying from pale lilac to cream white in the 

 shallow ones. The stony coating of these Corallines 



