l.V) SEA A/O.SS/iS. 



siphoniir. If foiiinl at all north of (ajiC ('«!, it must 

 l)c vrry rare. I found some ;;o<hI s|K'cimcns of it at 

 WtMMl's IImII. the last (lay of July, ami I) )w 



ri"|H)ris It at Nc\vi>ort, an<! Ntunk, Conn. M: tth 



at ( )rK-nt rmnt. an«l in I.on^ Island Sotind. It is a 

 suninK-r annual, and ^ro\v^ in <l<rj) water, from three 

 to six and ii^ht in< hcs high, i he main stem in the 

 lar^'cr pl.ints is as thi< k as a jmc k thread at ''^" ^ise, 

 hut it is soon lost in the multitude of lon^, ' »rge 

 spreading l»ran< hes, whu h it throws out on every side, 

 so tliat there is n* leading stem in this as in the list 

 siK'ties. Hie primary liran< hes are long and arc them- 

 selves irreguLirly and profus^'ly l»ran» hed, into secondary 

 l»ran< hes, whi< h are inu< h shorter. These again lininch 

 in the same way. and the tertiary l»ran< hes are usually 

 covered with spmcs. not unlike those <if P. I/arvryi, 

 Hut the spines are clothed with a dense grovirth of 

 colorlevs fihrills, so fine as to l>e imlividually almost 

 or qtiite invi>il>le. hut in the mass. l>ordcr all the 

 branrhlets. as they are dis|»Liye<I on pa|>er, with a 

 light brown "halo" or "mist." Pus is the rharartrr 

 istic |K)int. and will i«lentify the plant unmistakaM\, 

 U)X it is almtist always prrx^-nt. The plant gels its 

 siK'rifu lunu" frun these fihrills. The color of the 

 pbni rang's fr«>m a li;^ht to a «lark hnnvn, often even 

 lo near a full Maik. In general apixMranre ihc plant 



