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before leaving the stream, we picked 

 up, while ashore a few moments at 

 Hope Bay, a bit of seaweed like 

 a piece of stiff, greenish-gray fringe. 

 This puzzled the algologists for a long 

 time. They decided it was new to 

 science and were considering what to 

 christen it, when Mr. Collins, in an old 

 French work, stumbled upon a discrip- 

 tion of our Liagora (decussatd), long 

 since dropped out of the books as a 

 freak of the imagination of the author 

 Montagne, no specimen of such a 

 Liagora ever having been seen by 

 living scientists. We had the romantic 

 honor of rediscovering a plant and vin- 

 dicating the veracity of the old, long 

 dead naturalist. This seemed much 

 more interesting than discovering the 

 the plant for the first time. But this 

 honor, too, was in reserve ; for, on our 

 last trip, we found several new species, 



