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favellcB ; each of which contains three or four oval 

 seeds, and they are themselves surrounded, and appa- 

 rently protected, by several linear segments bending 

 over them. 



This is a very favourite mounted object for the 

 microscope, its cellular tissue being so transparent 

 that the cells containing the crimson endochrome can 

 be distinctly seen. 



"When fresh gatherea for observation, the favellee 

 are of a rich crimson, with a pellucid border, and, 

 seated in their little cage of crimson pinnules, are 

 really beautiful. 



Another kind of fructification is found on Ptilota, 

 but on distinct individuals : the pinnules are broader 

 at the tips, and covered with oval bodies, called tetra- 

 spores, from their containing four seeds. 



JPtilota is a perennial plant, found in summer and 

 autumn, frequently growing on the stems of Laminaria 

 Digitata; and therefore our best specimens may be 

 gathered on the beach after the autumnal equinoctial 

 gales. At Torquay it is found on rocks, but Ptilota 

 Sericea is often mistaken for it; this latter is very 

 abundant on the rocks at Moulin Huet, in Guernsey, 

 hanging in rich silky masses on the sheltered side of 

 the rocks, and thronged with that minute but lovely 

 zoophyte, Eucratia Chelata. 



STILOPHORA EHIZODES. 



It is a yellowish brown plant from six to twenty 

 inches long, thread-like branches, somewhat like Cera- 



