220 SEA AfOSSES, 



they might be easily applied to culinary uses in ihc 

 same way as the ** Irish Moss." 



GlCARTlNA MAMILLOSA, AC. 



This plant grows near low-tide, i; 

 Bay, and northward, upon the rocks, among ihc 

 •* Irish Moss " or Chomirus (hipm, which it niuch 

 resembles in appearance. It has very much the 

 same habit of growth, a rtattenetl, leathery, toogh 

 frond, forking from near the base, dividing a-.d — ^ 

 dividing in the same way, broadly and t»|)cnly. iu 

 segments are more or less wedgc-shajK-d. and hav. 

 a tendency to roll their edges inward, toward one 

 surface, m.iking a channel on that ^ It dillcrs 



from the Chondrus, by having on the inside, or 

 cave side of the frond, a numerous growth of ; 

 protulK-ranccs. T— • r-tdily dislingub 

 and give it its spccuic none. 



I have collected it in considerable quantiti< 

 Marblehead, and Mrs. Davis and ' Br.iy finu i 

 among the commonest plants on Lajn. .\nn, as Mr. 

 Collins does also at Nahant. It is common at 

 Cru/ and northward. ITie color is a ver)' dark puqile, 

 bbck and rigid when dry. It does not a.lherc to 

 paper. 



