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or even scarce. It is said to be found in Long 

 Island Sound, but where, or in what part of it, or 

 the adjacent waters, I am not able to say. It 

 more properly belongs to our northern waters, and 

 from various points there, it is reported. Mr. Collins 

 finds it at Revere, in tide pools, in June. Mrs. Bray 

 finds it in deep water at Magnolia ; and Mrs. Davis 

 collects it from May to July, at the same place, on 

 rocks partly covered by sand. 



It grows six or eight inches high ; the main stem 

 cylindrical, as large as wrapping-twine ; sometimes 

 solitary, but commonly in tufts. It is much con- 

 stricted at the base, and attenuated at the top, as 

 are also all the branches and the ramuli. It has a 

 leading stem, which, at the height of an inch or 

 more from the base, begins to be clothed with short, 

 widely-spreading, almost horizontal branches. In a 

 plant six inches high, some of them exceed an 

 inch in length. They are inserted all around, and 

 somewhat evenly distributed along the main stem. 

 They branch in the same way, and the secondary 

 branches are also beset with ramuli, arranged on the 

 same plan. All the parts are much constricted at 

 the base, and attenuated at the top. 



The substance of the frond is soft, or tender 

 and juicy, and a little elastic, shrinking much in 



