06 S£A MOSSiCS, 



exquisite l>caiity. llm plint is very common on the 

 Atlantic coist nort'i of New York city, also on the 

 l^nufic. 



L\MI.\.\KU I»NGICRtRlS, DK LA PVL. 



Tlic Afn^ itemed Luminana is a plant which in oiir 

 New Knglan<l waters grows to alwut the size of L, 

 sauarhina, except a.s to the stem whir 

 quite as Ion- as the Made of the pbnt. ihc wl 

 therefore, is from twelve to sixteen feet long, and 1 

 have found it at MarMchead eighteen to twenty 

 long, the blade twelve to sixteen in< hes wide. Haney 

 he fnun«l pLuits at Halifax, who>c blade wi, t^vo 

 to Uiree feet wi<le. The hold-£i.st, as in the la^i i..,..,, 

 is comjwsed of a number of stout roots, put out by 

 the stem at the Iwttom. The stem is vcr)- slender 

 and solid at that jioint, but toward the middle swdl, 

 to the diameter of an in< h or more, and U( omc 

 hollow. It ta|KTs alM) towar<l the bLulc to a diam- 

 eter of half an inch. Altogether, the stem will be 

 found from six to ten feet long in the full grown plant 

 'l*he bbde is much the slujxr and color of the wide 

 forms of Z. saecarhina. It grows in deeper water 

 than that species, and may Ixr found in from five to 

 ten (aihoms or more. It is very abundant from Green- 

 land to Cape Cod, and in ihe North I*acific 



