OE, GLIMPSES BENEATH THE WATERS. 



it once be successfully cultivated ; of which. I have no 

 doubt, when its natural wants are sufficiently studied 

 and ingeniously supplied. The splendidly-marked 

 plant to the right, with its black maculations and 

 richly-frilled edge, is Nitophyllum punctatum^ one 

 of our most splendid species ; and the curious pale- 

 buff, tubular plant in front of it, is Asperococcus 

 Turneri, JSTear the foot of the Nitophyllum is a 

 little tuft of the delicate Dumontia filiformis ; and, 

 to the extreme left, a branch of the brown-fronded 

 MytipJima pinastris^ which receives its specific name 

 from the somewhat Pine-like growth it frequently 

 assumes. Immediately beneath it, on the extreme 

 right, is a little cluster of Chordaria divaricata ; 

 and below, in the left foreground, are a few pink 

 fronds of the curious Alga, CJirysemenia rosea; 

 while, in the foreground, to the right, on a detached 

 pebble, is a small mass of the pale-crimson Feysso- 

 netia Dubyi. 



In Plate IV. the principal object is a fasciculus 

 of Taonia atomaria^ rising behind the point of rock 

 at the top of the Plate, behind which are two long 

 fronds of the spotted Asperococcus; to the left 

 is the horn-like Gigartina acicularis ; and in the 

 front, to the left, the crimson tufts of a pretty weed 



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