194 BuiTisH SEA-WEEDS. \R1iodosperme(e. 



and where some rare plants have ah'eady been found by 

 the Rev. Mr. Lambie. 



It has been once got at Ardrossan. It has been ob- 

 tained in Arrau by Mrs. Balfour and Major Martin, as well 

 as near Cromarty by Miss Allardyce. I have dredged it in 

 Lamlash Bay, ^^•here it was found on the persecuted Pecten 

 opercularls : quite willing was I to return the scallops to 

 the sea after stripping them of their outer furniture. This, 

 instead of being robbery, was mercy, for I am sure these 

 sea-weeds and zoophytes must have been a sad incumbrance 

 to them in those merry evolutions in which the scallops 

 dehght to indulge, when they skim through the water in 

 mystic dance."^ 



6. Griffithsia secundiflora, /. Agardli. 



"This noble species, one of the finest of the section to 

 which it belongs, was added to the British Flora by the 

 Eev. W. S. Hore, who discovered it in August 1S4G, on 

 rocks at extreme low-water mark at Bovisland, near Ply- 

 mouth." — Phyc. Brit., PL clxxxv. When the first edition 



* The scallops dance most mcmly. "NVhcn I first saw some of them at 

 their gambols iu a tide-pool, I thouglit they were young fishes ; but I found 

 that they were the young of Pecten opercularis. By opening and suddenly 

 shutting their valves, they skim rapidly along several yards, when they repeat 

 the operation. 



