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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Preface vii. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTB OD UCTIOK 



The Sea; its Voices and its Flowers, i — 3. The 

 Plan and Purpose of this Book, 4 — 6. 

 Scientific Names for " Sea Mosses," 6 — 9. 

 Geogr-'Vphical Distribution, 9 — 12. Classifica- 

 tion, 12 — 13. Times and Places for Collect- 

 ing, 13 — 17. Collecting Apparatus, 17 — 18. 

 Mounting and Preserving, 19 — 31. Methods of 

 Study, 31 — t^6. Clubs and Classes, 2>^ — 2>^. 

 History, 39 — 45- 



CHAPTER H. 



BRIGHT GBEEN ALG^. 



Key to Genera, 46. Orders: Siphonie/e, 47. Zoo- 

 SPOREiE, 49. 



