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acth ■ t s ." Such bodies are i 



other cryptogamie plants. Indeed, a* ' 



I witli ciliar) locomotivt oi - Bui 

 bodies are polli 



< i;„- i.i thi le plants of the ordi r is tlie J I 



cherdi ct plant, with root, stem, bud, and fruit, in u 



highly dev< !■ . j ■■ I ra< 



. . tin I, rn ii< li in ■ 



■'.' r . ,\ Professor Morren thinks that 1 



/..'.' J that the animalcule called Rotifer > 



actually i in the ''11- 



vata. It Uvea in certain protul 

 the stem of that plant, travi 1- 

 within tin in, traverses the par til 

 the colouring mat! 



Like all thi* ulli.iiu-.' thi 

 particuhu | hical limits, I 



the ocean or rivers spread them* r the 



land. Tin \ an . bow< \. p, r< ma 

 UK .it- Bpa ■ « lii'li single -, 

 ally occupy ; some ol Uiem formii 



tts in ;li<- ocean, emulating in their gigantic 

 dimensions the boundless element that 1 1 

 them. Scytosiphon filum, :i species common in 

 the North Sea, is frequently found of the l< 

 «.t' ,"ii or 1" feet; in Scalpa Bay, in < h 

 Fig. IX. according to Mr. Neill,this Bpecies forms mi adows, 



through which a pinnace with difficult) 

 way. Les8onia fuscescens is described by Bory de St Vincent as 25 or 

 I. ngth, with a trunk often as thick as ;i man's thigh. But ;ill these, and iud 

 other vegetable production, is i sceeded in size by the prodigioi 

 us pyrifera. " This appears to be the sea-weed reported b; 



to 1500 feet in length: the leaves are long and narrow, and at the 1 • ich is 



placed a vesicle filled with air, without which it would be impossible for the plant to 

 support it- enormous \< ngth in the wa& r : the stem not bi ing thit-k.-r than die ; 

 and the upper branches as slender as common packthread." '1 Durvilbea 



utili>, was s< en l i) Dr. Joa ] • 1 1 Hooker in lat 61° S. in larg ag patcl 



ever the water was free of icebergs ; and Scytothalia Jacquinotii as lov ..- 

 Some of the sped table, ..win.' doubtless t.> the large quantity 



matter that they Becrete. The young I I uninaria digitate and saccharii 



eaten under the name "t •• tangle." In Asia, Sargassum acanthocarpum and pyril 

 with Uuninaria bracteata, and in the Sandwich Islands,? m cuneifoliui . 



na '1 For food, When Btripped of the thin part, the 1" autiiul Alaria esculents 

 part of the simple fare of the poorer classes "i Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, 1 

 and tin- Faroe Islands. The large Laminaria potatorum of Australia furi 



aborigines with a proportion "I" their ' instruments, \ essels, and ; !." On the autl 



ol B irj '!«■ St Vincent, tl • Durvilhea utilis and other Laminaridae constil |uall) 



important resource !■' the poor on the west coast of South Amerii 



Scottish islands, hoi le, and sheep, feed chief!) upon Fucus 



the winter months ; and in Gothland it is commonly given t" pigs, i 



also, and Scytosiphon filum, constitute a part dder upon which i 



ported in Norway. In the manufacture of kelp, for the us 



Boap-boiler, S we* their place among the mor 



r thi- purpose an . 

 digitate and bulbosa, rlimanthalia lorea, and Scytosiphon filum. Ii 

 indeed, because ol the quantity << 4 . soda which the) contain that I 

 as manures. In medicine they bave been i all) i mployi ■!. 



vesiculosus in Europe against scrofula, S . ssum vulgare in 1' 

 calculus, and Sarg. bacciferum with some LAminarias in South \\ 

 and strangury. But whatever medical value the) 

 preseni line, which may be obtained i ither from the plai 



kelp. French kelp, according to Sir Humphry Bi 

 British; and, from some experiments made at tin I 

 cinalis is found to contain more than any Europeai 



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