a 
those regions that the algae occur in any obvious quan tity. 
hey are usually wanting on a loose sandy or muddy bottom, 
Si 
tide has a sites range of nearly sixty feet, the marine flora is 
serve very useful purposes. i Jnited 
tates have not een of much importance from the 
financial and economic poin 1 ait i erwi 
f view, it was quite oth 
hundred years or more ago in Scotland, Ireland, and northern 
ine the a Isles. an nd Coie ania years this kel Ip ash has 
he inhabitants 
of the Orkneys and the Hebrides, off the seu coast i Scotland , 
