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tacle for holding a watch. Some feathers of the birds were 

 adhering to it still. 



4. Gracilahia multipartita^ /. Agardli. 



Hab. On rocks and stones in muddy places in the sea, 

 chiefly in estuaries, near low-water mark. Annual. Au 

 gust and September. Found by Miss Hill; Eev. "W. S. 

 Hore ; Dr. Cocks, Plymouth ; and by Mrs. Wyatt, Salcombe 

 Bay. 



This is a showy, but rare plant, being as yet found in 

 Britain only on the southern shores of England. It is, 

 however, widely distributed over the world. Its oldest 

 name is Fucus midtipartitus of Clemente. Tor a fine figure 

 and description see Phyc, Brit., PL xv. 



Genus LXYIII. SPH.EEOCOCCUS, AgardJi. 



Gen. Char. Frond cartilaginous, much branched in a distichous 

 manner, compressed and two-edged below, nearly flat upwards, 

 the branches acute at the apex ; capsules spherical, mucronate 

 on little stalks fringing the smaller branches. — Greville, 



1. Sph^hococcus coRONOPiFOLius, ^y«;Y//^. (Plate XII. 

 fig. 48, part of the frond, of the natural size, and a portion 

 of a branchlet with tubercles, magnified.) 



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