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branous. Some might be taken for little transparent balloons ; 
some for fabrics, regularly frilled; some for shreds of quivering 
jelly; some for ribbons of yellow horn; some for belts of tanned 
CAULERPA WITH YEW LEAVES, ONE-FOURTH THE SIZE OF NATURE. 
(Caulerpa taxtfolia.—Agardh.) 
leather; some for fans of green paper! Their surface is some- 
times glossy, polished, and even glittering; sometimes rough 
PADINA PAVONITA. RED DOCK-LEAVED DELESSERIA,. 
(Delesseria sanguinea.) 
with worts or with real hair. Here one is found covered with a 
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viscous slime; another with a saline dust; a third with a sweet 
efflorescence ; and sometimes they are found with a shelly surface. 
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