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GRIFFITHSIA EQUISETIFOLIA.— EQUISE- 

 TUM-LIKE GEIFFITHSIA. 



From three to eight inches high, thickly set with 

 short incurved bristle-hke ramuli, not unlike Cla- 

 dostephus verticillatus, but the colour is different^ 

 and it is either of a red or brownish hue, often 

 staining the paper on which it is dried, a beautiful 

 pink. Perennial. Summer. On the shores of 

 England, the west of Ireland, and Channel Islands. 

 Frequent. Rare in Scotland. Frith of Forth, very 

 rare. 



GRIFFITHSIA CORALLINA.-CORAL- 

 LINE-LIKE GRIFFITHSIA. 



From two to four inches high, very unlike the 

 former species in aspect; the joints are very dis- 

 Itinct, swollen upwards like those of a Coralline, and 

 filled with a red hquid, staining the paper on which 

 the plant is preserved, a fine red colour. Tetra- 



