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that it is rarely looked for elsewhere by experienced 

 collectors. 



Here I must conclude. It is not without a certain 

 regret, however, that I do so. For, to me, there are 

 few subjects more absorbing than that which forms this 

 chapter. For the reader's proper understanding of 

 that vast range of life which forms the groves and 



SALT wort; a flowering plant of the seashore. 



gardens of the sea, I have necessarily been obliged to 

 trace the briefest outline. But it would be a mistake 

 for him to assume from this bare sketch that marine 

 vegetation has no interest apart from what was occa- 

 sionally pointed out. The plain truth is, there are 

 periods in the life histories of various individual plants 

 that are as dramatic and as charged with incident as 

 those which arouse our emotions in the case of higher 



