SUB-MARINE VEGETATION. 



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bits. These Oar-weeds, or Tangles, are of no value, we 

 think, to the Aquarium. 



The Leathesia Berldeyi look like convex kernels done up 

 in bronze. 



The Melohesia lichenoides is a pale, sulphur-colored 

 plant, of moss-like appearance. 



The Nemaleon muUifida has violet, antler-like fronds. 



The Nytojphyllum pundatum is a charmingly marked 

 plant, with a richly frilled edge, and black maculations. 



The Polysjphonia ^parasitica is a delicately branched para- 

 site, that makes its home on the lichen-like Melohesia, 



The Ptilota plumosa is a feathery plant, of a dull, red 

 hue. 



The Punctaria latifolia is a delicate pale plant, thin as 

 tissue-paper, with a light buff surface, sprinkled over with 

 minute dots of vivid black. % 



The Plocamium coccineum grows in pretty pink tufts. 



The Poiyhyra vulgaris is a very common, but surpris- 

 ingly picturesque, sea weed. It has a large and gracefully- 

 bending frond of rich purple, with narrower and younger 

 fronds springing from the same root. 



The Peyssoneta Dubyi is a pale crimson plant, embrac- 

 ing the first convenient pebble. 



The Rhodymenia palmata grows in bunches of broad, 

 dark-n^d leaves, the size of one's hand, smooth and glossy 

 in appearance. The red often runs into a dark crimson, 

 which shades off into a pale green towards the tips. The 

 R. /adnata is bright crimson, and has the finest possible 



