BY THE SEASIDE— PLANT LIFE 



The sea will also provide us with a rich harvest 

 of those beautiful microscopic objects, the Diatoms. 

 They may be sought on seaweeds, their yellowish 

 brown colour often betrays their whereabouts, on 

 rocks and sand and in mud. The salt water forms 

 are as varied and as beautiful as their fresh water 

 cousins. 



To the microscopist who merely uses his micro- 

 scope for the pleasure he can derive from it, rather 

 than for serious study, it may appear that 

 the plant life of the sea falls short of the animal 

 life as far as interest is concerned. He may dis- 

 abuse himself at once of this idea. There is no 

 class of plants more interesting than the seaweeds 

 and in few branches of plant life is there greater 

 scope for new discoveries. The garden of the sea 

 is largely an unexplored territory and there is no 

 coast-line in the world of equal extent which 

 provides so many different sea dwelling plants as 

 our own. 



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