THE SHORES OF BRITAIN. 47 
Tue Sea-GiRDLE (Laminaria digitata). 
Orkneys Red-ware (Laminaria digitata). It is very 
common, growing chiefly in deep water, where it 
is protected from the heavy action of the waves. Its 
appearance is singular: from a number of little root- 
lets, which grasp with great tenacity the naked 
rock, springs a straight olive-brown stem, sometimes 
as thick as a man’s wrist, and three or four feet 
long: at the summit it dilates into a broad car- 
tilaginous leaf, oblong in form, and palmated, or 
