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Filosa, also grows in company with JPlocamium ; and 

 if dried together in the album, they make a very pretty 

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"We do not find this plant either in Scotland or 

 Ireland, but in the Channel Islands and on the south 

 coast of England, and easily recognize its rigid hooked 

 branchlets and scattered fruits, also the jointed appear- 

 ances when fresh, even with a pocket lens. It prefers 

 the deep sea, and is often thrown up after a storm, 

 when, as in a specimen before me, it is nearly covered 

 with zoophytes and Melolesia. 



CHTLOCLADIA. 



(Xarne from Greek -words signifying "juice" and "branch") 



If you have got either to a deep mid-tide pool, or 

 are walking on the sands at half-tide, where rocks 

 are left dry, and break into little chasms, or over- 

 hang one another ; look into the clefts, and doubtless 

 you will find dark purple bunches of JPtilota S&ricea 

 mingling with Chylocladia in pale red or transparent 

 purple tufts ; also Griffitlisia — rich rosy -red : two 

 common species in the same place, all hanging high 

 and dry in company with Sponges, Limpets, Balanus, 

 Periwinkles, and TrocM or Tops. The cleft of a half- 

 tide or low-tide rock is a very mine of wealth to the 

 seaside naturalist. At Shanklin in the Isle of "Wight, 

 and numberless bays in Guernsey, Sark, and Jersey, 

 the crevice of one rock will give a good morning's work. 



Chylocladia Aetictjlata. — (A name signifying 

 sl juicy hranch.} 



