CI SEA MOSSES, 



GcTM^,^ C/L£TO.\fOKPIIA* Kutz. 



The plants uf this genus may be separated into 

 two groups, the straight ami the crooked. 'Hie fir^i 

 we shall coninionly find growing in their native ; 

 sunding up straight, stark and rigid. 'l*hc others we 

 shall find usually floating, or Uirown on shore among 

 the sea weed, a twisic<l, matted, entangled mass of 

 long green threads, thick or slemler, an<! rookc<l 



ant! kinked as wotjl. The plants ol il»i>. genus 

 consist in general, of a single long, bri^tP* 

 unbranched, green thread. 



Cn.«nx>MORi'HA Mr.LAGO>auy, Wkb. & N(ohr. 

 ThU sfK^cies grows in rock pools near low-w 

 and U-low. I'rom a disk-sha|>cd root, on the \ 

 it ri>es up four to twelve incl» lUiry. straight, 



and wirey, of a dork green color, as its nam 

 twice as thick as a bristle, Ui>ering to the base, and 

 blunt at the top. Articulations two or three times 

 longer than broad. Common all along our rocky 

 shores north of lk>slon, from June to Octol)cr. 



CiLfnOMORl'IU .tRllA, I)IU.\V. 



This plant has something the same habit as the 

 last. It groH-s in the same situations along the whole 



• QueUMSkorplu « Ukc a hor»e*» awiac. 



