GROWING IN DEEP WATER. 



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many plants growing on the sides of perpendicular rocks, 

 or in deep pools of water, which otherwise I could not 

 obtain ; whilst the stick, thus armed, serves also as a 

 help and support, and often saves the collector from 

 a tumble when scrambling over the slippery rocks. 

 But, even with this auxiliary, he will find that there 

 are many plants not attainable when approaching 

 their place of growth from the shore. Here the only 

 alternative is to repair to the locality in a boat. He 

 will, indeed, find it greatly to his advantage to hire a 

 boat occasionally ; and, with the assistance of an obliging 

 boatman, he will, in the course of a few hours, in fine 

 weather, and when the sea is smooth, be able, with very 

 little difficulty, to obtain not only an abundant supply 

 of plants, in excellent condition, but he will have an 

 opportunity of observing the places where particular spe- 

 cies grow, and the nature of the substances they are 

 attached to. Some he will perceive growing only on 

 the perpendicular sides of rocks ; whilst others will be 

 found on their flat surfaces. Many he will discover 

 growing parasitically on the different varieties of Fuci, 

 and on the stems of the Laminarise. One, a very inte- 

 resting species, Microcladia glandulosa, is generally found 

 growing on the fronds of Ehodomenia laciniata, and on 

 Nitophyllum laceratum. 



For the more zealous and enterprizing algologist ano- 

 ther plan for procuring specimens remains to be men- 



