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are extremely pretty on paper, and adhere well to it. 

 This species, when young, is so beset with pellucid 

 fibres as to have a woolly appearance under water, or 

 bristled out like a bottle brush. It grows in deep 

 water, and often thrown up after a storm on all parts 

 of the British coast. 



SPOEOJN T CHUS PEDUJNTCULATTJS. 



"(Name from two Greek words signifying "a seed " and " wool.") 



This is certainly not a common plant. It grows in 

 deep water, and can only be obtained by dredging or 

 after a storm, but is exceedingly beautiful, waving its 

 feathery branches in the water. Under the micro- 

 scope, or even with a pocket lens, we see the branches 

 margined throughout with seed vessels. These spore- 

 cases or receptacles appear first as warts on the stem ; 

 they become gradually stalked, and the oval pod is 

 crowned with a pencil of most delicate hairs, which 

 eventually fall off. If we cut one of these pods across 

 we see a slender axis within, whorled with filaments 

 bearing oblong olive spores. Colour when fresh, clear 

 olive, drying to a yellow -green, becoming brown in 

 age. The young plant adheres closely to paper in 

 drying. Found on the south coast and the Channel 

 Islands. 



CUTLEEIA MULTIFIDA. 



(Named after Miss Cutler by Dr. Geeville, in honour of her 

 researches in Algaeology.) 



This is an olive green, flat, much divided frond, 

 somewhat fan-shaped, irregularly cleft ; from two to 



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