OE, GLIMPSES BENEATH THE WATERS. 



little marine landscape. The elegant, fan-formed, 

 and brightly-radiated JPadina pavonia is likewise 

 mentioned, and should at all events be tried, as the 

 tufts of that graceful marine plant form very singu- 

 lar as well as beautiful objects in the tank.* 



I would also recommend the trial of all the 

 plants delineated in the five Plates devoted to the 

 sea-weeds in this little book. 



In Plate I., the first, occupying the upper part, 

 with leaf -like fronds of transparent crimson, is the 

 beautiful and not uncommon sea-weed, Delesseria 

 sanguinea. The delicate pale plant below, to the 

 right, is Functaria latifolia^ thin as tissue-paper, and 

 speckled over its pale-buff surface with bright but 

 minute grains of black. To the left is a branch of 

 Chordaria flagelliformis^ the rich olive of which 

 contrasts well with the red kinds of Algcje. In the 

 front, growing on a detached pebble, is the Lichen- 

 like midenbrandtia rubra^ the rich carmine of which 

 might be made to form an exquisite touch of colour, 

 if tastefully placed in the Aquarium; and to the 

 extreme right is a small tuft of Vaucheria sub- 

 marina. 



In Plate II., the principal object, near the top of 



* A list of the plants with which Mr. Gosse furnished his first 

 Aquarium is given in Chapter III. 



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