24 THE MARINE BOTANIST. 



DESMARESTIA LIGULATA. — STRAP- 

 LEAVED DESMARESTIA. 



Fronds from two to six feet long-/ repeatedly 

 pinnate. Pinnules lance -shaped^ with spine -like 

 teeth. Main frond with an obscure midrib, variable 

 in breadth, set all along* its length with opposite 

 branches, which are either branched in the same 

 manner, or simple and leaf-like. The young* plants, 

 as remarked by Withering*, look much like the 

 feathered part of a large quill. Colour, while 

 growing, olive-brown, fading in the air to a ver- 

 digris green ; yellowish when dry. Grows in 

 pools between tide-marks, generally near low water 

 mark. Annual. Summer. Frequent on the south- 

 ern shores of England, and the south and west of 

 Ireland. Jersey. Coast of Northumberland. Frith 

 of Forth, about New Haven, and other places. 

 Orkney Islands. 



