Marine Groves and Gardens 



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branching corals. It Is on this account that the^ are 

 called corallines. A representative type, though one 

 which by no means attains the perfection and beauty of 

 the tropical forms, Is the common coralline (C offici- 

 nalis)^ found In tide pools and on rocks at low-water 

 mark on New England shores and In Long Island 



corallina; a red seaweed which resembles coral, 



Sound. Its rigid, jointed, and many-branched frond Is 

 often mistaken, by those unfamiliar with Its real 

 nature, for coral, to which It has some resemblance. 



In the territory just mentioned, the amateur col- 

 lector win also often find washed ashore many of the 

 deeper forms, such as the brilliant Griffithsia, so named 

 for an English algologlst, Ptilota the feather weed, 

 Hypnea the moss weed, and Phyllopliora the leaf weed. 



