SEAWEEDS 



The lavor is much used in Great Britain as an arti- 

 cle of food for a relish \\itli roast meat. The Chinese 



use it for making soup. 

 It is an annual — that is, 

 it lives but one year. 



GIANT SEAWEEDS 



The largest of all 

 known plants is a sea- 

 weed. This seems ^trange 

 \\hen we think of all the 

 great plants and trees that 

 are found growing on the 

 land. It is a queer-look- 

 ing plant, too. Let us 

 see how it grows. There 

 is a thin naked stem from 

 700 to 1,500 feet long. It 

 is only about one-fourth 

 of an inch thick. At the 

 end of this stem is a fern-like leaf that is about fifty 

 feet in length. Where it joins the stem each leaflet 

 expands into an air vessel as large as an eg^. These 

 air vessels hold up the great frond which floats on the 

 top of the water. This plant is found on the Pacific 

 coast of Xorth America. 



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Poi-jjliyra, or Laver. 



