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SEA-SIDE PLANTS. 



too, he may chance to meet with that interesting 

 plant, the Sea Kuppia, or Tassel-grass (Uuppia 

 maritima) ; flower it can hardly be called, since it 

 has no gay coloured petals to distinguish it. It 

 is not uncommon in salt-water ditches and pools, 

 growing wholly submersed. Its stems are like 



TASSEL GRASS (Ruppia marilima). 



slender threads, bending about and sending off 

 many branches, on which grow long pointed leaves 

 like bristles. The whole plant might be at first 

 taken for a sea-weed, but its structure is in reality 

 very different from that of any marine vegetable. 



