118 .^/:^i Mossms. 



'Hiis is a dccp-w.ilcr siK:rics, and is rcj>ortcd 

 as not common all along ihc coa-si from New York 

 to (ik3ij( cslcr. 



'Hiis is l»y far our mosi < ommon Polysiphonia^ 

 consi«lcral»ly outranking tvcn /*. urceolata. It grows 

 cvcrA'wlurc on ll»c nx k-. ami on several olhcr *' 

 \KK>\^ and in dcc|» water, as well as just IkIow t 

 I lake it olun as it < omes in \\\^\Vi the wave 

 my lon^-handled dipper. i»u km^ <Mit the pLints I want, 

 frotn amonj; the Ivnulreils whn li ^;o lltxiling by, up iil 



down. 



IIk* stem is k^xmc (»r twice as thick as a bri 



lieauuful ]»Unts nuy In: fouml. not more than two 



or three im hes hi^h ; l»ul pLints from twelve to ci.L'htecn 



in< hes hi^h. are by no nu-ans tmmmmon. 



Hie distm^uishinr iiurks <»f the s|>erics arc mainly 



the>e : i. The ]»resence of a leading stem, bran« * 



all arotmd m all the fn»nds. S<jmetimes there wiil 



seem to Ik: two or three main stems. Uiit this ai)p' ' 



anre arises from the extraorilinar)' de\'elopment ot 



some of the lower branches. 2. The form of the 



primary branches, which are long and somewhat widely 



spreading at the l>ase, but Urome regularly shorter 



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