124 SBA MOSSJSS. 



reported the same in California. It grows from 

 eight to eighteen inches high, cylindrical, unbranched, 

 attenuated at top and bottom, one-fourth of an inch 

 in diameter, inflated, and sharply and definitely con- 

 stricted at irregular intervals, which gives it the 

 appearance when growing, of a string of small, narrow 

 bags tied together by the ends. Color, a brownish 

 or greenish olive. Substance, membraneous and soft. 

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There are no more fitting words with which to 

 bid adieu to this modest-hued, homely, often coarse, 

 but always interesting group of plants, than these of 

 the Poet, who loves the sea and the 



SEA WEED. 



" When descends on the Atlantic 

 The gigantic 

 Storm wind of the Equinox, 

 Landward in his wrath he scourges 



The toiling surges. 

 Laden with sea weed &om the rocks. 

 Ever drifting, drifting, drifting, 



On the shifting, 

 Currents of the restless main; 

 'Till in sheltered coves, and reaches 



Of sandy heaches, 

 All have found repose again," 



Longfellow, 



