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resounded at no very distant period even through 

 the streets of Edinburgh. The latter is the sea-weed 

 usually called in England the Sea-girdle, and in the 

 Orkneys Red-ware {Laminaria digitata). It is very 



The Sea-Girdle {Laminaria digitata). 



common, growing chiefly in deep water, where it 

 is protected from the heavy action of the waves. Its 

 appearance is singular : from a number of little root- 

 lets, which grasp with great tenacity the naked rock, 

 springs a straight olive-brown stem, sometimes as 

 thick as a man's wrist, and three or four feet lonfj: 



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