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THE NATURALIST. 



digitalis grew covering them over with its broad dark fronds, and thus 

 causing darkness sufficient for the more beautiful Rliod.ospermce, to develope 

 their fine colours, which otherwise with such clear water as surrounds the 

 Island we could not have hoped for especially as the tide was not quite out, 

 and to the perpendicular rock faces, where the rare Gigartina Teedii grows 

 in profusion especially on one face which I waded to, and then scrambled up 

 ■ — here also Tylota Sericea, hung in graceful driplets, each plant retaining a 

 drop of apparently ruby coloured water at its extremity, whilst to add to the 

 beauty of this enchanting rock-face large tufts of Chondrus crispus grew at 

 its base, giving out its resplendent opal like irridescent colours with every 

 movement of the water ; but we have no time for the beautiful, we know 

 that in less than two hours the ship gun will be fired and the Avork neglected 

 can never be done again — so feeling a change of posture would be a relief, 

 a move is made to a shallow weedy pool where Janea ruhens is growing 

 parasitic on various plants and Melohesia Lichenoides is covering every 

 stone and rock with its delicate pink lichen-like self, where the rare Clado- 

 yliora uncicdis is in thousands, and where the Ceramidoe are the colour of 

 the yellow pen I am writing with, in consequence of exposure to the sun's 

 influence, instead of the beautiful reds they should be, when grown in dark 

 pools, Eang goes the ship's gun again, and lo, one boat is seen laden and 

 almost back to the ship ; we look up and see our president and some ladies 

 scrambling down the rugged sides of the Island, this give us a few moments 

 more, but at last we reluctantly quit the rocks j and as we push off a fine 

 "bird of the year," great black backed gull, came and stood on the rock above 

 us just out of gun shot — a solitary but evidently a happy fellow ; a pair of 

 puffins rushed head long ]3ast us and a few razor bills careened along the 

 edge of the water, and we had finished our two hours at Puffin Island, 

 with the following results : — 



Fucus vesiculosus 

 F. serratus 

 F. nodosus 

 F. canaliculatus 

 Laminaria digitata 

 L. steno2:)liylla var. 

 L. saccliarina 

 Stilopliora rhizodes 

 Asperococcus echinatus 

 A. vermiculaiis, var. 



Cladostephos verticillatus 

 C. spongiosus 

 Sphacelaria plumosa * 

 S. cirrhosa 

 S. fusca 



Ectoearpus litt oralis 

 E. tomentosus 

 E. hradiiatus 

 E. siliculosus 

 E. granulosus 



