170 SEA MOSSES. 



and floats to the surface, and is driven in shore. 

 Then like Macbeth's bloody hand, it almost seems the 



"Multitudinous seas to incarnadine, 

 Making the green — one red." 



There lies before me as I write, half a dozen splendid 

 fronds taken at that season, on the pebbly beach, 

 where the Hessians landed at the battle of Long Island, 

 just below Fort Hamilton, New York. They are from 

 one and one-half to two a^J one-half feet long, and 

 three to four inches wide, perfect in outline, and of 

 a most beautiful rosy red, with just a shade of orange 

 here and there. They would make exquisite pictures 

 framed as pannels. A reduced copy of one of them 

 adorns this volume, in Plate XII. They are delicate 

 plants, and must be treated tenderly, and yet these 

 specimens were carried, rolled up in newspapers, from 

 New York to eastern Massachusetts, 250 miles, and 

 kept twenty-four hours out of water, before they were 

 mounted. 



Genus.— DELESSERIA * Lam. 



Delesseria sinuosa, Lam. 

 The Delesseria with a sinuous or indented outline 

 is a deep water plant, growing on the roots of Lam- 



* Named for Delessert, a French botanist. 



