124 SEA MOSSES. 



reported the same in California. It grows from 

 eight to eighteen inches high, cylindrical, unbranched, 

 attenuated at top and bottom, one-fourth of an incli 

 in diameter, inflated, and sharply and definitely con- 

 stricted at irregular intervals, which gives it the 

 appearance when growing, of a string of small, narrow 

 bags tied together by the ends. Color, a brownish 

 or greenish olive. Substance, membraneous and soft. 

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There are no more fitting words with which to 

 bid adieu to this modest- hued, homely, often coarse, 

 but always interesting group of plants, than these of 

 the Poet, who loves the sea and the 



SEA WEED. 



"When descends on the Atlantic 



The gigantic 

 Storm wind of the Equinox, 

 Landward in his wrath he scourges 



The toiUug surges. 

 Laden with sea weed from the rocks. 

 Ever drifting, drifting, drifting, 



On the shifting, 

 Currents of the restless main; 

 'Till in sheltered coves, and reaches 



Of sandy beaches, 

 All have found repose again.'" 



Longfellow. 



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