orache suggest sculpins, or some sea-shells, while 

 the innumerable eredt stems of the spreading house- 

 leek resemble the backbone offish. Carrying with 

 it its air-sacs and paraphernalia of the sea, the 

 rockweed, which is a "weed" of another world, 

 grows as far up on the land as it can go, while 

 the weeds of the beach approach the water as 

 near as they dare. Here is the frontier, the edge 

 of their world, and one and all would scramble 

 over the border could they sustain life on the 

 other side. 



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