186 SEA MOSSES. 



the eastern coast arc small, not more than an inch, 

 or an inch an.l a half high. Those growing in 

 California are three or (our inches high, the lower 

 brandies long an<l naked Ulow. gradunt'v shortening 

 toward the top oi the plant. 'I hey ... '^vo or 

 three tiinos pinnated, that is, the bnuicucs bear 

 branches, and thi-»e bran* hlets. arrangcci on the same 

 pinnate plan throtighout ; the ultimate ramuli arc 

 usually clubsha|>cd. and swollen with th r-' 



mxssc-s, which they contain. Color, a puqihsh red, 

 but by exix)stire on the Ixr.ich. it fades through all 

 sh.ides to dirty white. It grows in li«le pools on 

 r«>cks and othrr \\^. near low-water mark. It is 

 ixtrcmcly common on the Pacific coast at ^^' 

 sons. A section of the fniit U-aring branchlei m in 

 a vcrv intcrcstrr.; microscopical object, with its 

 sha|K(l siKjrcs. growing from a central partUion, 

 which <livides the inner cavity of the conccpucic 

 into two ctpial clumbers. 



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The fronds often attain a height of tw 

 are flattened, two-edged, one-tenth of an nich in 

 diameter, flatter upwartls, three or four limes pin- 

 nated. The root is a mass of much-branched, riKil 

 fibres. Stem and long |>r;mar)' branches naked be- 



