68 SEA WEEDS. 
If you will examine the beach during the recess of 
the tides, particularly after a storm, you will find it 
thickly strewn with fre gments of the most beautiful 
plants; some being colored with the most brilliant 
shades of crimson, some sparkling as with gold, or 
glittering like silver, and all possessing a very pecu- 
liar and cwvious formation; while in the little pools 
among the rocks may be seen many of the lower 
forms of animal life, which are truly wonderful. 
Almost any of the marine plants are suitable for the 
Aquarium, and it is here that their peculiar habits 
may be most carefully studied. They generally thrive 
well with little care, and mostly present a singular 
appearance, fastened to the rocks, and growing we 
scarce know how. A few of these, well chosen and 
tastefully arranged in a glass tank, together with 
shell-fish, Sea Anemones, and a few Sticklebacks and 
Minnows to give life to the whole, will form an object 
which cannot fail to interest the most unthinking in- 
dividual. 
There are some plants found growing on the rocks 
near the sea, which, although they resemble the sea- 
weeds in some respects, belong to a different class, 
and a slight knowledge of botany will enable aes one 
to fee aeh ae them. 
The Sa ee is an example; it is an umbellifer- 
ous plant, and never grows below the surface of the 
water, but fastens itself upon the rocks just beyond 
the reach of the tide, but where it can receive sufli- 
sient moisture from the spray. 
An intoresting anecdote is related of some ship 
