221 SEA ^fOSSES. 



long slender spines, and often bears a few small. 

 ihin Icaflcls along its edges. Il grows to the lu-: ^ ' 

 of twelve or sixteen inches or more, ami is an n.. .. 

 or an inch and a half wide. ITie color is a d- 

 brownish red. It is abundant along the whole L^* 

 fornia coast. It may be found near the wharf, at 

 Sanu Barbara, and al the beach, and mussel beds, 

 at La JoUa, San Diego. 



A pbnl, which the bounisis have ted \\\^m 



calling a variety of this, var. AvrriJa, but which d 

 from it in all respects, quite as much as G. spinosa 

 does, is very common along ihc whole coasL It is 

 a much smaller plant, thicker, and darker <ulored, 

 and vxsUy more profusely and irregularly divitled, and 

 branched, tlian the t)'pical form. It is literally 1 



in almost every part, with long, closely set, simple 

 or branched spines. Its apinrarauce well oniiilcs it 

 to the cognomen *' horrid." It is present in c 

 numlxrrs, in almost every gathering of California 

 ••Sea Mosses" which one gets. Why il is not worthy 

 of a regular specific *' local lubitation and a name," 

 is more than appears clear to me. 



CiCARTINA CANAUCUI.ATA, HaRV. 



This, also, is a very common sixrcies on the Cal- 

 ifornia coast, but quite unlike any other reprcsenia- 



