174 BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. [Bkoclospermece. 



— Pale glistering pearls, and rainbow-coloured shells, 

 Bright things that gleam unreck'd of, and in vain. 



it * * * ■ * 



Yet more, — the billows, and the deeps have more ! 



High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast ! 

 ***** 



Give back the lost and lovely ! — those for whom 



The place was kept at board and hearth so long; — 



The prayer went up through midnight's breathless gloom. 



And the vain yearning woke 'midst festal song ! 

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To thee the love of woman has gone down ; 



Dark flow thy tides o'er manhood's noble head ; 



O'er youth's bright locks and beauty's flowery crown. 



— Yet must thou hear a voice, — Restore the dead ! 



Eaiih shall reclaim her precious things from thee — 



Restore the dead, thou Sea ! " — 3Irs. Hemaus. 



Genus XXXVI. CALLTTHAMNION, yl^ard^. 



Gen. Char. Frond rosy or brownisli-red, filamentous ; stem 

 either opake and cellular, or translucent and jointed, branches 

 jointed, one-tubed, mostly pinnate (rarely dichotomous or irregu- 

 lar) ; dissepiments hyaline. Fruit of two kinds on distinct plants : 

 1, external tetraspores, scattered along tlie ultimate branchlets, 

 or borne on little pedicels ; 2, roundish or lobed, berry-like 

 receptacles (favellse) seated on the main branches, and containinp; 

 numerous angular spores. — Callithamnion is from two Greek 

 words signifying beautiful little shmb. — Harvey, 



