HALF AN HOUR WITH SEA-MATS AND SQUIRTS. 145 



after every storm. In the winter they are especially 

 abundant, and on some parts of our coasts they 



Fig. 73. 



Flustra truncata, nat. size. 



might then be gathered by the | 

 cart-load. Fig. 74 is a magni- 

 fied representation of the last- 

 named species, showing that even 

 when dead and dried up it forms Portion of same, x 60. 



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