HAET2TE BOTAKY. 3D 



Widely different is the habitat of the dee.p lake, or rosy- 

 red Callithainnion {C, roseum), which displays its pure and 

 brilliant fan-shaped pinnse, in contrast to mud-covered 

 rocks ; and equally incongruous that of the rare and intri- 

 cately tufted C. barbatum, which derives some degreoSof 

 adventitious beauty from the site whereon it grows. Chil- 

 dren are they of neither rock nor sand, but of mud-banks, 

 whereon all others refuse to vegetate, as if even those un- 

 sightly places, where the sea deposits its froth and scum, 

 should not be wanting in the loveliest of her productions. 

 They read, methinks, a lesson to the heart, hinting that 

 moral beauty, nay, even Christian perfection, may exist in 

 haunts the most ungenial—the more lovely because of 

 hindrances ; the more prized in the sight of those who look 

 on, though to us invisible, because there has been nought of 

 outward means by which to uphold or cherish the moral 

 flower. 



" There are in the loud stunning tide 

 Of human care and crime, 

 "With whom the melodies abide, 

 Of the everlasting chime : 



" Who carry music in their heart, 



'Mid jostling street and dusty mart : 

 Plying their daily task with willing feet, 

 Because their inmost souls a holier chime repeat." 



Far different sites are assigned to the C. Turneri and C. 

 letricum, the Turner, and rough Callithamnion : the former, 

 a memorial plant, which recalls to mind its first discoverer, 

 Dawson Turner, is generally parasitic on various kinds of 

 Alga3, creeping, by means of small roots, over the surface of 

 marine plants, and covering them with rose-red filaments ; 

 the second often grows luxuriantly in pools of salt water left 

 by the receding of the tide, or flings occasionally its brown- 

 red branches over different kinds of Alga3. In both, the 

 naturalist discovers that the glory of all natural things con- 



