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the Zostera at, and beyond, low-tide margin, so that it is 

 pretty well safe from dredge, trawl, or hands. 



On one occasion, when a storm, occurring at the time of 



Fig. 57. Squttla DexiJiarestii. f Natural size 



a very low spring tide, tore up a large expanse of Zostera 

 beds, squillas were washed on shore on the east coast of 

 Jersey by thousands. (This was in 1881.) Better known 



