210 SEA AfOSSItS. 



on our <o.ist. Peaks Islan«l, Mc, Beverly and Nahaiit 

 Mass ami New York, Hiil I do not think it can U- 

 a very common plant, (or I have never hapi>ened to 

 fmil it growing, ami none f»f my coires|K)ndcnts havr 

 seemed to l>e more fortunate than myself. It grow^ 

 in deep water, altoul two inches hii;h, from a lilile 

 disk, by a stem at first cylindrical, twice as thick as 

 a bristle. In half an inch it forks, sending out a 

 main branch each way. In half an inch more ii 



flattens to one eighth of an inch wide, and forks .i 



with a witle, roumled axil. Directly the^ »in h>iK 



in the same way, till five or six divisions have been 

 made, and the ultim.itc IoIkts will be one-fourth to 

 one-half an inch long, sUnding wid irt, and 



rounded at the end. It has a darkish red color on 

 paper. 



GVMNNX-ONCRfS IJ-PTOPIIVIJJTS,* AG. 



'I*his plant somewhat resembles the last. Like that, 

 the frond is flit and n-irrow, but the sUlk is shorter 

 and not so cylindrical. .Starting frr- - -t: . ,>j,f 

 hold fast, a small, narrow, flit stem ai vinch 



either branches at once, or forks at the height of 

 half an inch, into two widely sprearling parts. 'Vhv^r 

 divide and sub-divi<le, in the same way, two or three 



