392 W.#H. Brewer on Life in Hot and Saline waters. 
was 93° C. (about 200° F.) But they were most abundant in 
waters of the temperature 52° to 60°C. (125° to 140°F.) In 
the hotter springs the plants appeared to be of the simplest 
ind, apparently simple cells, of a bright green color; but they 
were examined only with a good pocket lens. In the water 
below, about 60-65° C., filamentous Confervee formed consider- 
able masses, of a very bright green color. 
ganisms in the specimens. 
At the “Little Geysers,” afew miles distant from those last 
Plants occur also in various other thermal waters in the State. 
They were noticed in great abundance in water having a tem 
122-125° F. in a warm spring in Owens Valley, 
solution, which is deposited as they cool her water 
spreads out over the surface there is in pl an abundant 
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