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ever it is seen. Its color is a deep lakc-rctl, when 

 fresh or youn^. ImU often flecked with K'^ccn. •" 

 white, or yellow, or fadei! to pink, when it has been 

 lonj; exiK»ed on the slvire. I'herc are very many 

 U-autifiil plants to l»e found .imong its various forms. 

 It does not re.idily. or ver>- finnly adhere to iKipcr 



in drkinj;. 



I find, from an old w«)rk on my by 



(;melin. of St retersburj;. that it was d< d 



more than a century aj;o. he having then already. 

 receivc<l sj»e. muns of it from Kan^' ' -d • Tf i^ 

 essentiallv an an ii« plant. I have iwu in\n^:^ iioiit 

 Spit/U-rgen. where it is des<ril»ed. as U-ing among the 

 most common of the red .Mgx. 



l)H.K-SSrRU AI-^TA, \»K\\. 



The ivirii^rti DfUaeria h.is the same general 

 habit a.s D. simuosa, except that it is a ver)- much 

 niirrtjwer, and more delicate pbnt. It grow* in much 

 the same sittiation. ami may Ik: look* ^ ^'" -n the 

 same pbces. I: will almost al\va>-s l>e luuuu un our 

 shores in connectioti with Ph/,*ta f/umosa, var. ser- 

 rata, on whose frond it is vcr>' commonly parasitical. 

 It is commonly not more than three inches high, 

 though I ha\e l>oih Knglish an<l .American specimens, 

 twice that. 



