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(iirtcrent species, or the plants from different Icxrali- 

 ties, sciKiratc. Then, as your pbnts arc collected, 

 ihey inay U* roughly sorted, and put in different 

 l)ottles. Hut two or tliree bottles should be resenetl 

 for the most delicate and fragile forms. And as there 

 are several of them, which rapidly perish on Uing 

 ex{X)sed to the air, the bottles should be kept jxully 

 full of sea water. 'I*he more delicate Pohnphoniai, 

 the Calithamnionsy Vasyas, and some others will need 

 this protection. 1 have found a quart fruit jar very 

 handy. 1 get the kind thai 1 can fasten a string 

 around the neck, so as to carry it susiK-mletl in 

 one lund, which leaves the other always free to 

 gather in the phnts with. A jar, whose co\cr goes on 

 and off, with the least possible trouble, is the one to 

 Ihi selected. 'ITie only disadvantage ii 'g a 



receptacle of this sort, for your collection, is that 

 in climbing over the wet and mossy rocks, your feet 

 may chance to slip and you get a tumble, then in 

 your efforts to save yourself, you will forget all alx)ut 

 your fragile gbss jar, and will smash it into a thoti- 

 sand piect^s, u|xjn the hard stones, and |Krhai)s lose 

 your whole collection. But two or three of these jars, 

 carefully jxicked in a l>asket, so as not to be easily 

 broken, would perhajjs furnish as handy a « 

 n.i.it-itiis as you could extemi>orize at the sea shore. 



