100 SEA MOSSES. 



from Cai>c Cod to Grecnhnc!, and is lo be looked 

 for among ihc " Kelp," and other sca-wecd thrown 

 up frum deep water. It will \)C Vwuwn at sight by the 

 frond U-ing full of holes. It is dried and movmled 

 in the same way as the I.dmindna. 



Sub-Ofder —SrO/iOCIfXF.€. 

 Qcnyii—S77lOr//OA\t,* .4'. 



There are three species of this genus set down 

 in the l)Ooks, as U-longing to our fl(jra. Only one 

 of ihem is of sufficient imiwrtancc to warrant me in 

 making mention of it here. 



Stilophora riuzodcs,! Ao. 



Is a plant interesting alike to the botanist and 

 the microscopist ; for, if you take its wartlike mass 

 of spores and filamenU, and cut a tliin section of it, 

 and mount it for the microscope, you will find you 

 have a beautiful object- 

 It is a fdiforrn plant, with stem and branches 

 once or twice as thick as a brittle. It is much 

 branched by irregubr forkings, six or se\en times 

 reinrated, the extreme ends short and widely spread- 

 ing. It grovk-s four to six inches high, and b of 



f Rh tule* Root like. 



