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THB SAKOASiO WBET>. 



CllTjingv* All the weed was more or less pro- 

 dmlj tmmd with parasitical eonfervm, display- 

 ing mmh <IeBeaey md h^xs^. 



1 succeeded in capturing witli the weed nn* 

 merous specimens of small cral)s, and soine even 

 of large size, small nereis, together \vith various 

 specimens of fish, the Syngmtkus, or pipe-fish, 



clinging to the plants; and also niiinei^OUS ^iljl 

 sepitB of a beautifnl ])ur])lish colonr. 



In support of the opinion tliat the attachment 

 of the fuci to rocks is not absolutely necessary for 

 thtxt a<Wi^bin$itt, It has been «»bsemi<l the lit- 

 cus nodosus, that " this and some other fuci have 

 no dependence on their root for nourishment, and 

 therefore, instead of being ramified, it is merely 

 a disc or button, by tlie adliesioii of whicli, as- 

 ^l^d, perhaps, by atmospherical preB8in?9j 

 weed li^eps m uncommonly firm hold of the rock 

 to which it is attached.*' The air vesicles on a 

 plant of course render it more buoyant than those 

 destitute of them. I have found, tliat detaching 

 At tit v^sicl^s fpom a pknt, and placing it in 



♦ 0^»Mc mentions, tliat, if prepared with vinegar, it fur- 

 fiiahes ati ciKC^nt pickle ; aiid Htimphius, according to Mr. 



Turner, relateSj thatj in the East, salads aro made <if it, as well 

 as other Algse. It is also eaten in Cliili. — Grevilk's Algea 

 Bntannicm, Svo. 1890, p. 



