112 GLAUCUS ; on, 



paint, drew not upon the resources of his prohfic 

 fancy for imagery here, but was well content to 

 jot down the simple lineaments of nature as he 

 saw her in plain, homely England. 



"It is a beautiful and fixscinating sight for 

 those who have never seen it before, to see the 

 little shrubberies of pink coralline — < the arborets 

 of jointed stone ' — that fringe those pretty pools. 

 It is a charming sight to see the crimson banana- 

 like leaves of the Delesseria waving in their dark- 

 est corners; and the purple fibrous tufts of 

 PoIi/sipho)iia; and Ceramia, 'fine as silkworm's 

 thread.' But there are many others which give 

 variety and impart beauty to these tide-pools. 

 The broad leaves of the Ulva, finer than the 

 finest cambric, and of the brightest emerald- 

 green, adorn the hollows at the highest level, 

 while, at the lowest, wave tiny forests of the 

 feathery Ptilota and Dasya, and large leaves, cut 

 into fringes and furbelows, of rosy RJiodymenicE. 

 All these are lovely to behold; but I think I 

 admire as much as any of them one of the com- 

 monest of our marine plants, Chondrus crispus. 

 It occurs in the greatest profusion on this coast, 

 in every pool between tide-marks; and every- 

 where, — except in those of the highest level. 



