03 SEA MOSSES. 



Ann. gTowinj; somtiimos in litlc i>oob. It ncc<l not 

 be looked lor south of (ajK: Cod. 



Gcr ' n/cTYoy/wf^oy* Rupr. 



I)iriYONITROS CAUFORNUVM, RfPR. 



This is rcrtninly one of the most interesting 

 plants of this K^^^up. h w.is first brought from 

 the coast of California, in 1K40, by Wosncsscnski, 

 a Russian iwvigalur, and desrnU-<l l»y Rupret ht. 

 In ail«lilu>n to his excellent fipire and full text, 

 I have several sik< imens kin<lly sent me by Dr. An- 

 derson, as a guide in giving an arrount of the 

 pkint. W\Q one U-forc me Ls al>out thirty imhes long 

 and two ami three-fourths inches wide in »'»• widest 

 pbce, tiiKTing somewhat toward the brokvn lup, and 

 rapidly t») the stem Ulow. Hie fron^l has a tendency 

 to liend in the direction of one edge like a sabre 

 l>bde. Its disiingxiishing mark consists, however, in 

 the lact ilut l>oth surfaces of the frond arc woven 

 o\'er with a net-work of prominent veins and r 

 some of which, nin in a general ilirection, p.irallcl 

 wi**" '^.e trdges of the frond, and others not «ui thick 



• Dictyoocafoa — Netted ncrre». 



