CALIFORNIA PLANTS IN THEIR HOMES 



You will, perhaps, think that these sea plants have no 

 chlorophyll, and so cannot manufacture food as the water- 

 net does. But the chlorophyll is there in plenty, hidden by 

 the brown or red color. You can see this for yourselves in 

 pieces that have been faded in the sun on the beach, or in 

 pieces you have kept in fresh water. So we see that 

 although water plants get their raw material easily, the 

 pretty red sea mosses and the big kelps, as well as the little 

 water-net, are busy all day long making up this material 

 into useful food substance, at the same time setting free 

 oxygen for the general good. Perhaps it was not quite fair 

 to compare them with the lazy boy. 



