172 BRITISH SEA- WEEDS. [lilelanoqoermece. 



2. Chordaria divaricata, Afjardh. 



This species was known only as an inhabitant of the 

 Baltic Sea, till it was found by Mr. M'Calla, in October 

 1845, thrown up in great abundance from deep water at 

 Girrickfergus. It is lighter in colour than the preceding, 

 and the axils are very patent. 



" II y a dans chaque plante bien examinee nne preuvc vivante de I'existenee 

 du graude Etre qui gouveme cet univers. Les divers arrangements que pre- 

 sentent les organes sont autant de petits problemes proposes par la grande In- 

 telligence a notre faible intelligence, qui en derive. J'avoue, an moins, pom* 

 moi-merae, que je n'examine pas une simple fleur sans etre etonne de la 

 sagesse qui en a disposee les diverses parties, ct sans aperccvoii', dans le detail 

 on dans Teusemble, le texte de meditations les plus profoudes." — Vaucher. 



Series II. RKODOSPERIVIE.a:. 



" Call us not weeds, — we are flowers of the sea, 

 For lovely, and bright, and gay-tinted are we ; 

 And quite independent of culture or showers : 

 Then call us not weeds, — we are Ocean's gay flowers." * 



Family VII. CERAMIE.E. 



We have now come to a most interesting portion of our 

 little work, in which we have to treat of the Floridece, so 



* Motto on the title-page of a pretty album, called ' Treasures of the Deep,' 

 containing about fifty specimens of Scottish Algsc, prepared by the author's 



