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about three feet in reality, but the low 

 tides were generally accompanied by 

 high waves, so that it was always diffi- 

 cult to collect. 



We used to rise at five, awakened 

 by the horribly discordant lay of a 

 clock with a Chinese alarm. After a 

 breakfast of rice, sweet potatoes, stewed 

 mangoes or fresh coconut, we has- 

 tened to the laboratory for our collect- 

 ing aprons, pails and knives, and then 

 were off for a two or three mile trip 

 up or down the beach. Among the 

 more conspicuous and common forms 

 growing on the rocks here were the 

 following : Microdictyon umbilicatum, 

 with its curious net -like frond ; the 

 somewhat remarkable Dirty osphceria fa- 

 vulosa; Halimeda tuna; Caulerpa taxi- 

 folia, looking like a Lycopodium pros- 

 trate and half buried in the sand ; two 

 interesting varieties of CI ado p hora 



