APPENDIX F.—PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF FORFAR. 231 
The many Confervee growing in stagnated pools and ditches, 
give out a great deal of oxygenous air from their extremities, and 
hence tend to prevent putrescency in the waters during the summer 
months ; and it is probable that the numerous Fuci, Confervee and 
Ulvee, aire placed by the hand of Providence in the deep, in order 
to assist in preventing that vast collection of water from becoming 
putrid. 
I shall conclude my observations on these tribes of vegetables, 
with the words of the celebrated Mr. Turner of Yarmouth, who has 
written a Synopsis of the British Fuci, and is publishing a more 
extensive work, with highly finished figures of all of them. “I can 
assure the philosophic naturalist (he says), that while the more 
stupenduous works of the Divine Hand arrest the attention of even 
the most careless observer, and in a language equally understood 
by all ages and all nations, declare the glory of God; these humble 
vegetables will, by the inquisitive mind, be found by no means 
wanting in affording additional proofs, both of the wisdom and 
beneficence of the Great Creator. 
Having thus taken notice of the vegetables which are to be found 
in Angusshire, and such as are natives of the sea which washes it, 
or are thrown occasionally on the shore, (at least such of them as 
have fallen under my observation), I shall next take notice of the 
Zoophyta, which are the connecting link between the vegetable and 
animal kingdom. The chief of these are: 
Sertularia thuja Sertularia rom 
" halecina os 
et loricata ‘s myriophyllum. 
5 umila Of this I have 
ea operculata only found one 
e geniculata specimen on 
‘4 lendigera this coast 
= falcata "a dichotoma 
re burne a setacea 
” rosacea i spin 
i tamarisca rs ag 
” tin a astigiata 
‘ cupressina e syringa 
re ent e avicularia 
a rugosa y scruposa 
" lum “ re — 
fe antennina fru ns 
i volubilis Pennatula phosphioren 
i cuscuta Corallina officinalis 
6 filicula » elongata 
