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■whereas up in the north they are both ragged and 

 rigid. 



I give no scientific description beyond this : 

 The stem is red and flat, branched ; the branches 

 toothed as it were on one side, with three or four 

 ramuli always on the same side : there will be a kind 

 of intuition the moment you see it — "Oh, that is P/o- 

 camium ! " 



BOX^EMAISOXIA. 



(aspaeagus-like eonxemaiso^ia.) 



Eox^emaiso^ia Aspakagoides. — A most delicate 

 pretty plant, so unlike any other that we can scarcely 

 mistake it. Seen floating in the water, nothing can be 

 more feathery and elegant, nor does any dried speci- 

 men ever come up to the living growing in a shadowy 

 pool. 



The fructification is so distinct as to be clearly 

 discerned by the unassisted eye — like fruit upon a 

 tree. The frond is narrow, flat, rose pink, and ciliated 

 — remarkably so, and transparent urn-shaped capsules 

 are seated between the cilia. The spores are pear- 

 shaped, crimson, with pellucid border. It is more 

 common in the north of England and Scotland than 

 in the south, yet we have some good places for it in 

 the Channel Islands. 



EUECELLAEIA EASTIGIATA. 



"We must have some specimens of seaweed not quite 

 so beautiful as the rose-red varieties already noticed, 



