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Jamaica, our seaweeding was conducted 

 rather differently than at the North. 

 The seaweeds found upon the beaches 

 were dashed up by unusually high 

 waves after a storm ; therefore collec- 

 tions made from the wrack were apt to 

 be fragmentary. At Port Antonio, 

 from the shore at one side of the 

 bay, extended a large coral reef over 

 which the water was shallow. Here, 

 wearing our bathing suits, we could 

 wade out and gather quantities of 

 14 Mermaid's shaving-brushes" {Pencil- 

 lus capitatus Lamarck), Caulerpa, Udo- 

 tea y Halimeda, Corallina, etc., rooted in 

 the sand after the manner of terrestrial 

 plants, and Galaxaura, Dictyosphczria, 

 Cymopolia and various others on the 

 rocks. At other ports such seaweeds 

 as Dictyota, Gelidium, Turbinaria, Sar- 

 gassum, Padina, Amansia, Laurencia, 

 etc., grew on rocks off bold shores, 



